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Experimental planes: X-37B lands after 718 days in orbit for a secret military mission - VIDEO

Cape Canaveral, USA - The spaceplane of the US Air Force was launched on May 20, 2015

Announced by a sonic boom the experimental plane X-37B of USAF (US Air Force) landed Sunday morning on the runway of the Shuttle Landing Facility of the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA) after almost two years of permanence in space. The X-37B (Orbital Test Vehicle) spacecraft is an unmanned spaceplane of the US Air Force designed for long orbital missions. It is an evolution...

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Rome, Italy, 05/09/2017 11:54
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