X-37B unmanned space shuttle to be launched tonight | Mail Online
It looks like the space shuttle's more diminutive cousin - but experts say it was created with technology from a generation beyond.
The U.S. military is poised to launch the mysterious X-37B unmanned winged spacecraft tonight - but what America plans to do with it there is anyone's guess.
The mission has been wrapped in secrecy from the get-go.
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SPACE.com -- Some Details of Secretive X-37B Space Plane Revealed
The secrecy surrounding this is somewhat disturbing. I thought Obama wanted to usher in a new era of open government. Do the American people not have the right to know where 100's of millions of tax dollars are going in this mission?It's a tight-lipped affair, with its builder — Boeing Phantom Works — pledged to retain vocal silence on the flight — advising this reporter here that they "defer to the customer" — the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.

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