Glad to see the Air Force's X-37B launched successfully last night. Congratulations to the launch team!

From Spaceflight Now: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av012/100422launch/

From Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...p-launch-nasa/

From Britain's Metro: http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/823027-s...on-test-flight

I find it interesting that the news outlets make such frequent use of the word "secret" to describe something that a) they've been given pictures of and written articles about, and b) they knew ahead of time was going to launch. Fox News, "a mission shrouded in secrecy," really? Metro UK, "secret military robot shuttle"? They don't know what secrecy is.

What a far cry from the days when only the launch and payload crews knew what was on top of the rocket, and the first time most other people found out about the launch was when it thundered away in the distance. And most people never knew what the payload was.

Here's a Space.com article that at least gets the adjective right in the headline: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...ed-100417.html. "Secretive," yes; "secret," most assuredly not.