On 9/14/2010 8:19 PM, Jorge R. Frank wrote:

If the label on the wing is the problem, NASA can always buy a few...

I'm assuming what's inside would be the problem.

NASA was originally part of this program, but dropped out.
One of the civilian things a X=37B could do is test out microgravity
manufacturing. The long flight duration would give it plenty of time to
do things like grow crystals or mix up a lot of exotic metallic alloys
out of metals of wildly different densities and return the results to
Earth.

Pat