Word has it that the X-37 seems to be moving down the road from the Mojave Spaceport in California to neighboring Palmdale.

The robotic X-37 spaceplane is a project of the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Space and Intelligence division of the Boeing Company, with limited support from NASA.

On April 7, after lots of testing at Mojave, the craft was finally dropped at high altitude from the White Knight carrier aircraft. For more details, check out:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060407_x37_drop.html

The auto-landing of the unpiloted X-37, however, ran into a bit of a problem by unexpectedly rolling off the end of the runway. There was minor damage to the vehicle, with its nose landing gear heavily damaged. However, the craft’s main landing gear and superstructure appeared structurally intact – that was the word at the time.

Rumor has it that the X-37 project folks have vacated the Mojave hangar and are headed for Palmdale under a May 1 deadline.