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US air force's mystery space plane back on Earth after secret two-year mission
Source: The Guardian
The air force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission.
The X-37B landed at Nasa’s Kennedy space center in Florida early Sunday. The air force is keeping quiet about what the plane did in orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2017. The 780-day mission sets a new endurance record for the reusable test vehicle.
It looks like a space shuttle but is one-fourth the size at 29 feet.
Officials say this latest mission successfully completed its objectives. Experiments from the Air Force Research Laboratory were aboard.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/28/us-air-force-space-plane-nasa-kennedy-space-center
A real live "X-File"?
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hmm, coincidence?
