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Update on X-37B Launch: How many X-37Bs?

Just read this. Yes, it’s a second prototype, desginated the X-37B OTV-2 (Orbital Test Vehicle 2).

So now, the question becomes how many of these OTVs does the USAF have, and in what other variations?

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This entry was posted in POLITICS/DOMESTIC, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY and tagged air force, launch, nasa, orbital test vehicle, otv, reusable, space plane, usaf, x-37b, x37b on March 7, 2011 by Thinkwing Radio.

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Mike Honig is originally from Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Houston in September of 1977 and has been there ever since. Mike's interests are politics, history, science, science fiction (and reading generally), technology, and almost anything else. Mike has knowledge and experience in many diverse fields, sometimes from having worked in them, and sometimes from extensive reading or discussion about them. Mike's general knowledge makes him a favorite partner in Trivial Pursuit. He likes to say that about most things, he knows enough to be dangerous. Humility is a work-in-progress.

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