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Plans start an American ship prototype X-37 will be postponed. The planes passed into the hands of the Air Force was covered particular. Unmanned spacecraft X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is and will be launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a secret mission with an unknown duration. The mission will be launched on Thursday evening between 07:52 hours to 08:01 local time, after the return of Discovery was delayed by nearly Space Center Kennedy, based on official information of the United Launch Alliance, which provides an opportunity for an aircraft missile Atlas. Ulak aircraft and ship “Discovery” 7 astronauts originally scheduled to land on Monday morning at Kennedy Space Center, but could not because of low clouds and rain, the runway at NASA. This is not the first delay to ship X-37B in this month. On the basis of specifications, which launched the spacecraft X-37B weighs about 11,000 pounds and has a length of 29 feet.

The plane has a height of about 9.5 feet and wings 15 feet. This ship was built at the division and Boeing Phantom Woek is the last mission of the Air Force Office of quick opportunities. X-37B is designed to run in space without a crew to an altitude of 500 miles over the sea and in orbit for 270 days. The plane returned to the Earth’s atmosphere to make an automatic landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This ship was originally present as the NASA X-37 plan for the development of new generation aircraft outside angkasanya. NASA plans to close in 2004, when the cost of deficit and sent to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Air Force took over the prototype in 2006, where the X-37B will operate the first mission is called the orbital test vehicle 1 (Ans-1), currently remains a mystery.Inilah