X-37 drop test set for November but orbital variant put on hold

NASA's X-37 program is preparing for the first drop tests of its atmospheric demonstrator vehicle starting next November, although funding constraints have prompted the agency to put the brakes on an orbital variant that was to have flown in late 2006. The unmanned X-37 vehicles are intended to...

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