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Secret U.S. space plane glides home to Earth
William Atkins
Monday, 06 December 2010 00:36
On Friday, December 3, 2010, the unmanned X-37B space plane glided back to Earth and landed in California after 220 days in orbit about our planet.
It is a robotic winged craft, with no humans onboard, that looks somewhat similar to the more familiar space shuttles Atlantis, Endeavour, and Discovery.
The X-37B space plane is about nine meters (29 feet) in length, has a wingspan of about four meters (14 feet), and has a height of approximately three meters (9.5 feet).
It has a mass of about 5,000 kilograms (or a weight on Earth of about 11,000 pounds).
About two of the vehicles could be lined up and placed into the cargo bay of the space shuttle
It landed on a runway at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, at approximately 1:16 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST), after its first trip into space.
The exact mission and goals of the mission have been kept secret. However, speculation swirls that its mission was to spy on various countries on Earth not on the best of terms with the United States.
The publicly stated goals of the mission was to test the guidance, navigation, and control systems of the craft, and to demonstrate its ability to land autonomously.
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