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October 20, 2021

Breaking News

[ October 19, 2021 ] Webb telescope unboxed after shipment to Guiana Space Center Mission Reports
[ October 19, 2021 ] NASA moves Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building Mission Reports
[ October 18, 2021 ] NASA officials optimistic Lucy asteroid mission will overcome solar array snag Mission Reports
[ October 18, 2021 ] China launches orbiting solar observatory Mission Reports
[ October 17, 2021 ] Russian actress returns to Earth after space station movie shoot Mission Reports

Pentagon plans to keep X-37B spaceplane under Air Force management

August 18, 2020

The U.S. military’s X-37B spaceplane program will remain under Air Force management for the foreseeable future, and won’t join other Pentagon space programs turned over to the Space Force after the establishment of the new service branch last year.

X-37B’s return to Cape Canaveral in images

October 29, 2019

The U.S. Air Force has released an infrared video and additional images from Sunday’s landing of the military’s X-37B spaceplane in Florida after a top secret mission that lasted more than two years.

U.S. military’s X-37B spaceplane lands in Florida

October 27, 2019

The U.S. Air Force’s reusable Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane returned to Earth early Sunday with a touchdown at NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a few miles away from where it launched 780 days ago atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.