In for servicing

After a long slog in orbit, what space plane wouldn't want to head back indoors for a little servicing?

Now that OTV-2 is back on the ground, Boeing and the Air Force will be getting ready for OTV-1 to make its first return trip to space sometime before the end of 2012. "We look forward to the second launch of OTV-1 later this year and the opportunity to demonstrate that the X-37B is an affordable space vehicle that can be repeatedly reused," Paul Rusnock, Boeing vice president of Government Space Systems, said in a statement Saturday.