Sunday, June 17, 2012

Space plane video

  • The U.S. Air Forces robotic X-37B space plane came back to Earth today (June 16) after 15 months in orbit on a mystery mission, and its much-anticipated landing was caught on video.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • About five seconds before launch, the Pegasus XL rocket -- also from Orbital -- will drop from the plane, ignite and propel NuSTAR to space. A video showing a previous Pegasus launch is online at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.
  • (phys.org)
  • A few years ago Campbell purchased the aircraft for $100,000 and decided to gut it and create a living space. The airplane home act leading to a zombie apocalypse has spread. A new prank video on YouTube is not doing much to curb peoples fears.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • That plane went down weeks after a similar incident in California that was captured on dramatic video.
  • (Denver Post)
  • In the final moments, the aircraft neared a small open space in the crowded neighborhood of Iju-Ishaga, about nine kilometers (five miles) short of Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
  • (MyFox Phoenix)
  • co-edits an online magazine about his country's manned space program. Already, "hero pilot" Liu Yang, as she's been dubbed, is the focus of intense media coverage.
  • (Daily Beast)
  • will contain a unique code and information about the Space Planes project, so they can be returned to the school when they land and the distance they travelled can be plotted. Also being sent up are two video cameras to record the launch and the views.
  • (Bristol Evening Post)
  • But the generals' gripe was seen mostly as a worry about finding intelligence analysts to watch the countless hours of surveillance video that the spy drones the military has space issues, as well.
  • (Wired News)
  • The days of Johnny racing home to finish his model airplane are making a comeback surfing the Internet or excessive video-game playing.
  • (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

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