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A Secret Space Plane Just Landed After a Record Stay in Orbit

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

The old space shuttle landing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center received an unusual visitor early Sunday morning when the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane autonomously returned from orbit after a record-breaking mission. For the last 780 days, the Air Force Research Laboratory used the space plane as an orbital platform for classified experiments.

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