{"id":14212,"date":"2015-05-09T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14212"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:58:44","slug":"secret-air-force-space-plane-gets-darth-vader-style-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/secret-air-force-space-plane-gets-darth-vader-style-engine","title":{"rendered":"Secret Air Force Space Plane Gets Darth Vader-Style Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"label\">By<\/span> <a class=\"linkTargets-processed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci-authors\/kelsey-d-atherton\">Kelsey D. Atherton<\/a> <\/span> - Popular Science<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force\u2019s secret robot space plane is going to try out a new engine. The <a class=\"linkTargets-processed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tags\/x-37b\">X-37B<\/a> has so far spent a total of 1367 days tooling around in Earth\u2019s orbit, doing classified things. Yesterday, the Air Force Research Lab announced that on its fourth flight, the X-37B will come with a new fuel-efficient engine for maneuvering in space. <a href=\"http:\/\/The Air Force\u2019s secret robot space plane is going to try out a new engine. The X-37B has so far spent a total of 1367 days tooling around in Earth\u2019s orbit, doing classified things. Yesterday, the Air Force Research Lab announced that on its fourth flight, the X-37B will come with a new fuel-efficient engine for maneuvering in space.\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kelsey D. Atherton \u2014 Popular Science The Air Force\u2019s secret robot space plane is going to try out a new engine. The X-37B has so far spent a total of 1367 days tooling around in Earth\u2019s orbit, doing classified things. Yesterday, the Air Force Research Lab announced that on its fourth flight, the X-37B [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64734,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14212\/revisions\/64734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}