{"id":29010,"date":"2010-05-17T20:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123205047"},"modified":"2010-05-17T20:13:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:13:43","slug":"base-prepares-flightline-for-spacecraft-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=29010","title":{"rendered":"Base prepares flightline for spacecraft landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123205047\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100508-F-7747R-003.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The 30th Civil Engineer Squadron finished a runway hardware retrofit construction detail at the base&#8217;s flightline May 8 to accommodate the eventual landing of the Air Force&#8217;s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle here. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The experimental nature of the X-37B necessitated the urgency of the modifications in case of an unscheduled landing,&#8221; said Lt. Col. Troy Giese, the Air Force&#8217;s X-37B Systems Program Director. <\/p>\n<p>Approximately 80 people from the 30th CES, 30th Launch Group, 581st Missile Maintenance Squadron, 30th Operations Support Squadron&#8217;s airfield operations flight and Vandenberg&#8217;s Training Device Design and Engineering Center replaced 658 plates along the flightline&#8217;s centerline to increase the levelness of the airstrip. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123205047\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}