{"id":4501,"date":"2012-06-05T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T22:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2012-08-06T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T20:42:41","slug":"secret-mission-accomplished-americas-secret-space-plane-to-land-after-a-year-in-orbit-and-no-one-knows-what-it-did-up-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4501","title":{"rendered":"Secret mission accomplished: America&#8217;s secret space plane to land after a YEAR in orbit &#8211; and no one knows what it did up there"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The 29-foot, solar-powered craft had an original mission of 270 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force said the second mission was to further test the technology but the ultimate purpose has largely remained a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle&#8217;s systems program director, Lieutenant-colonel Tom McIntyre, told the Los Angeles Times in December: &#8216;We initially planned for a nine-month mission. Keeping the X-37 in orbit will provide us with additional experimentation opportunities and allow us to extract the maximum value out of the mission.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2154405\/Secret-mission-accomplished-Americas-secret-space-plane-land-YEAR-orbit--knows-did-there.html\">Secret mission accomplished: America&#8217;s secret space plane to land after a YEAR in orbit &#8211; and no one knows what it did up there | Mail Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It kind of looks like the space shuttle from the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 29-foot, solar-powered craft had an original mission of 270 days. The Air Force said the second mission was to further test the technology but the ultimate purpose has largely remained a mystery. The vehicle&#8217;s systems program director, Lieutenant-colonel Tom &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[512],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}