Fwd: [New post] Air Force Mini-Shuttle Receives Green Light for 11 December Launch

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From: AmericaSpace <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Date: December 8, 2012 11:02:00 AM CST
To: bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com
Subject: [New post] Air Force Mini-Shuttle Receives Green Light for 11 December Launch

Ben Evans posted: "[caption id="attachment_28221" align="aligncenter" width="445"] An Atlas V, in its '501' configuration with a 5.4-meter-wide (18-foot) payload fairing, no strap-on boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage, roars aloft with the National Reconnaissa" New post on AmericaSpace Air Force Mini-Shuttle Receives Green Light for 11 December Launch by Ben Evans After more than a month of delays, United Launch Alliance's venerable Atlas V rocket is scheduled to loft the third Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-3) – a secretive and highly controversial Air Force mini-shuttle, also known as the X-37B – into space at 1:03 pm EST on Tuesday 11 December from Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral [...] Read more of this post Ben Evans | December 8, 2012 at 12:00 pm | Tags: Accident Investigation Board, Atlas V, Cape Canaveral, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CCAFS, Centaur upper stage, Delta Cryogenic Second Stage (DCSS), Delta IV, General William Shelton, GPS II-F3, Jim Sponnick, Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), Major Tracy Bunko, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), NASA, OTV-3, Pad 41, Pentagon, RD-180, RL-10, rocket, Rockets, Shuttle, Space, space shuttle, TDRS-K, ULA, United Launch Alliance, US Air Force, X-37B, X-37C | Categories: Atlas V, Ben Evans, X-37B | URL: http://wp.me/p1YCNG-7l9 Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.americaspace.org/?p=28219