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Re:Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after reco... by Denvercoder9 on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:35PM (#21380064)
> Until this X-37B flight, US did not have a public demonstration of a technology matching what USSR had with Buran in the late 1980s.

Nitpick, but the first flight of the X-37B program already demonstrated this back in 2010.

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Re:Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after reco... by eatmyshorts on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:48PM (#21380192)
Yes, you are correct. And it would appear that the US was unwilling to shelve the Space Shuttle, despite the known problem of them blowing up every one out of fifty launches, didn't shut down the Space Shuttle until 2011, after confirmation that the X-37B could replace the military needs of the Space Shuttle.
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