Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight

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Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight
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The Pentagon's secretive X-37B spaceplane landed in Florida on Sunday after...

The Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 is seen after landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility, Florida, U.S., October 27, 2019. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS

The unpiloted X-37B, built by Boeing Co., touched down on an air strip at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:51 a.m. ET after spending 780 days orbiting Earth as the Air Force’s fifth flight mission under the Orbital Test Vehicle program, the Air Force said. “The X-37B continues to demonstrate the importance of a reusable spaceplane,” Barbara Barrett, the newly appointed Air Force secretary, said in a statement. “Each successive mission advances our nation’s space capabilities.”

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