The 2006 June30-July12 Space Flight

2006 June23-July5: The Space Flight, utilizing the Space Plane launched by a horizontal takeoff from the Shodegard space port, carrying the HOAstrolab to orbit, setting up the Lab, gathering high resolution images, continuing to the Moon for flying 2 orbits.
The Space Plane continued onto the Far Earth orbit, approaching 1 million miles from Earth, maneuvering back towards Earth, meeting and observing the 2004XP14 asteroid from the distance of 30,000 miles, and traveling alongside the the asteroid for at least 1 hour; returning and landing at either the Levengard AF Spaceport.

The mission was most complicated in the story of space exploration, calling for complicated fuel tank management, orbital correction and trajectory maneuvers, multi operational plan, and a most challenging Earth return trajectory.