Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days in orbit

Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by poopsintub on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @08:40AM (#7177262)

This is the first I've heard of it. Wikipedia says it's just under 10 feet tall. I would never have guess it that small from the images I've looked at. Aside from you know, the man standing at the bottom of the wikipedia photo...

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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by neals on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @08:55AM (#7177345)

For the lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by sdfjkl on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @09:41AM (#7177628)

> measuring over 29 feet (8.8 m) in length

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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by poopsintub on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @10:13AM (#7177873)

Yeap. My apologies, I was looking at the height.

Height: 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)

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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by sdfjkl on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @11:18AM (#7178335)

Admittedly it is up for debate which is length and which is height in a VTHL craft ;-)

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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by mcguire on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @01:33PM (#7179344)

For completeness, the wingspan is 14 ft 11 in (4.5 m).

They don't look especially broad, either. Yay, lifting bodies!

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Re:Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days ... by Avshalom on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @09:02AM (#7177384)

that wikipedia photo is it standing on it's tail, so it's 30', hence the scale with the human.

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