Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time, there lived in a small town, the prettiest girl that ever was seen. This little girl was not only very pretty, she was also kind and good.

Her mother was very fond of her, and her grandmother was even fonder still. This good woman made for her a little red riding-hood, in which she looked so well, that every body called her Little Red Riding-Hood.

One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her: 'Go, my dear, and see how your grandma does, for I hear she has been very ill. Carry her some cakes and this little pot of butter.' Little Red Riding-Hood set out at once a to go to her grandma, who lived a little way off.

As she was going through the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, bin. he durst not, for fear of some men who were at work hard by.

He asked her where she was going. The poor child, who did not know that there might be harm in stopping to hear a wolf talk, said to him, 'I am going to see my grandma, and carry her some cakes, and a little pot of butter from my mamma.'

'Does she live far off?' said the Wolf. 'Oh! yes,' said Little Red RidingHood; 'it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house you come to.*

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'Well,' said the Wolf, 'and I'll go and see her too. I'll go this way and you go that, and we shall see who will be there soonest.' The Wolf began to run as fast as he could, taking the nearest way, and the little girl went by the longest way.

She played about, getting nuts, running after butterflies, and making little bunches of such flowers as she met with. In this way she lost some time, and gave the Wolf a chance to get there first.

The Wolf was not long before he got to the old woman's house. He knocked at the door—tap, tap.

'Who's there?'

'Your grandchild, Little Red RidingHood,' said the Wolf, speaking as much like her as he could; 'who has brought you some cakes and a little pot of butter, sent you by mamma.'

The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was not very well, cried out:

'Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.'

The Wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door flew open. He sprang into the room, got hold of the good woman, and ate her up in a moment, for it was more than three days since he had touched a bit.

He then shut the door, got into the grandmother's bed, and waited for Little Red Riding-Hood, who came some time after and knocked at the door—tap, tap.

TEXT CREDIT: Little Red Riding-Hood

X-37B Space Plane

Mission: The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, is an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the U.S. Air Force. The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold: reusable spacecraft technologies for America's future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth.

Features: The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft. Based on NASA's X-37 design, the unmanned OTV is designed for vertical launch to low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long duration space technology experimentation and testing. Upon command from the ground, the OTV autonomously re-enters the atmosphere, descends and lands horizontally on a runway. The X-37B is the first vehicle since NASA's Shuttle Orbiter with the ability to return experiments to Earth for further inspection and analysis, but with an on-orbit time of 270 days, the X-37B can stay in space for much longer.

Technologies being tested in the program include advanced guidance, navigation and control, thermal protection systems, avionics, high temperature structures and seals, conformal reusable insulation, lightweight electromechanical flight systems, and autonomous orbital flight, reentry and landing.

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Background: The Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office is leading the Department of Defense's Orbital Test Vehicle initiative, by direction of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and the Secretary of the Air Force. The Air Force OTV effort uses extensive contractor and government investments in the X-37 program by the Air Force, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue full-scale development and on-orbit testing of a long-duration, reusable space vehicle.

NASA's original X-37 program began in 1999 and ran until September 2004 when NASA transferred the program to DARPA. NASA envisioned building two vehicles, an Approach and Landing Test Vehicle, or ALTV, and an Orbital Vehicle. The ALTV validated flight dynamics and extended the flight envelope beyond the low speed/low altitude tests conducted by NASA from 1998 through 2001 on the X-40A, a sub-scale version of the X-37 developed by Air Force Research Labs. DARPA completed the ALTV portion of the X-37 program in September 2006 by successfully executing a series of captive carry and free flight tests. NASA's X-37 Orbital Vehicle was never built: but its design was the starting point for the Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle program.

The Air Force's first X-37B, OTV-1, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., April 22, 2010 and performed a successful autonomous landing at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., Dec. 3, 2010, after approximately 91 million miles and 224 days, 8 hours and 24 minutes in orbit.

General Characteristics
Primary Mission: Experimental test vehicle
Prime Contractor: Boeing
Height: 9 feet, 6 inches (2.9 meters)
Length: 29 feet, 3 inches (8.9 meters)
Wingspan: 14 feet, 11 inches (4.5 meters)
Launch Weight: 11,000 pounds (4,990 kilograms)
Power: Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells with lithium-Ion batteries
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V (501)

Point of Contact: Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (Public Affairs), 1690 Air Force Pentagon, Washington D.C. 20330-1690; commercial 703-695-0640.