USAF's Little X-37B Space Shuttle: More Military Than NASA's

The fuss about NASA's future and the end of the Space Shuttle overshadowed one fact: NASA's not the biggest space agency in the U.S. The military is test-launching its own tiny space plane today, in fact, and it's damn creepy.

The vehicle in question is the X-37B. The "X" gives away its experimental status, the "B" is a reference to the fact the original X-37 was a Boeing/NASA technology testbed that actually underwent basic automatic in-atmosphere unpowered flight testing with the help of...