{"id":5911,"date":"2014-10-14T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T07:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2014-10-13T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:44:34","slug":"x-37b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/10\/14\/x-37b\/","title":{"rendered":"X-37B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/27411-x37b-military-space-plane-landing.html\">Space.com <\/a>reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The U.S. Air Force&#8217;s mysterious X-37B space plane will return to Earth this week \u2014possibly as early as Tuesday \u2014 after 22 months in orbit on a secret mission.<\/p>\n<p>The robotic X-37B space plane, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, will land at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officials are gearing up for its return. As of today (Oct. 12), the X-37B mini-shuttle has been in orbit since December 2012 and racked up a record-shattering 671 days in space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Team Vandenberg stands ready to implement safe landing operations for the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, the third time for this unique mission&#8221; said Col. Keith Baits, 30th Space Wing commander, in a statement on Friday (Oct. 10).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i.space.com\/images\/i\/000\/000\/424\/i02\/x37b-orbital-spaceplane-140402a-02.jpg?1396466940\" width=\"575\" height=\"1394\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\">Space.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space.com reports: The U.S. Air Force&#8217;s mysterious X-37B space plane will return to Earth this week \u2014possibly as early as Tuesday \u2014 after 22 months in orbit on a secret mission. The robotic X-37B space plane, also known as the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/10\/14\/x-37b\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[4,23,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}