secret aircraft X-37B launched today, the...

replacement to the shuttle program more likely. it in unmanned and a mini-version of the retiring shuttle fleet. the air force is in charge of this project and it is very tight lip with regards to the reason of its invention and its range of capabilities. but it will do the job of supplying the international space station without risking the lives of astronauts. live astronauts will now be transported by the Russian space craft Soyuz to the space station. some say that it can carry missiles that can target or deflect incoming enemy fire power or missiles sort of. those launch by enemy countries just in case they plan to attack the U.S... maybe that is why the shuttle program is now being stopped. this might be the super bigger version of those unmanned military aircraft that had targeted and killed enemy leaders in Pakistan and Afghanistan. amazing advancement in space military weaponry. what's next? this is it, in the mean time. still, very cool, right? and speaking of risk, the space shuttle lost quite a bit of space men with the lost of the space shuttles, Challenger and the Columbia but the Russians never lost a lot of astronauts yet that i know of except for Gagarin and Komarov, in their Soyuz space craft. so their safety record is just better than the U.S. and that is just a fact...