NASA Transfers X-37 Project to DARPA

Posted on: Sep. 15th, 2004 || Source: space.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

WASHINGTON — NASA has transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program to the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which plans to go ahead with atmospheric drop tests of the prototype space plane next year.

NASA spokesman Michael Braukus said Sept. 15 the U.S. space agency would remain involved in the X-37 program, but that DARPA would now be running the show.

Braukus had told Space News on Sept. 13 that the X-37 program had been transferred to another U.S. government agency but that NASA could not disclose that agency’s identity for reasons of national security. Braukus said on Sept. 15 that he had since been given permission to identify DARPA as X-37’s new government sponsor.

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