{"id":35435,"date":"2017-03-18T12:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/air-forces-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-nears-orbital-record"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:08:41","slug":"air-forces-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-nears-orbital-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/air-forces-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-nears-orbital-record","title":{"rendered":"Air Force\u2019s Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears Orbital Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-forces-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-nears-orbital-record.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s X-37B space plane is just eight days away from setting a record on its current clandestine mission.<\/p>\n<p>If the robotic vehicle stays aloft until March 25, it will break the X-37B mission-duration mark of 674 days, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/27478-secretive-x-37b-space-plane-lands-at-vandenberg-afb-video.html\">established back in October 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether that will actually happen, however; the Air Force is tight-lipped about most X-37B payloads and activities, including touchdown plans. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/29401-x-37b-space-plane-4th-mission-photos.html\">The X-37B\u2019s Fourth Mystery Mission in Photos<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36101-x-37b-military-space-plane-nears-record.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/36101-x-37b-military-space-plane-nears-record.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s X-37B space plane is just eight days away from setting a record on its current clandestine mission. If the robotic vehicle stays aloft until March 25, it will break the X-37B mission-duration mark of 674 days, which was established back in October 2014. It\u2019s unclear whether that will actually happen, however; [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58373,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435\/revisions\/58373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}