The Air Force X-37B space plane landed Sunday at Cape Canaveral, Florida. As the plane descended to the airfield, it created sonic booms that could be heard throughout central Florida.
The X-37B spend 718 days in orbit on a classified mission.
This was the fourth landing of the military “mini-shuttle” that Air Force officials say is testing several technologies.
“The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold; reusable spacecraft technologies for America’s future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth,” officials said.
The X-37B is the first vehicle since the Space Shuttle to be able to return experiments to Earth for further examination. And the mini-shuttle can stay in orbit for 270 days or more without resupply as it carries no crew. This allows for long-term, zero-gravity and zero-atmosphere research.
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