paceX launched the US air force’s super-secret space shuttle on Thursday, blasting off from Kennedy space center in Florida as schools and businesses boarded up for Hurricane Irma.
Mysterious space plane blasts off for secretive US air force mission
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The crewless aircraft, a technology testing mini-shuttle capable of spending years in orbit, rode an unmanned Falcon rocket on the fifth such flight.
There are two X-37B orbital test vehicles in existence, and between them they have already logged five and a half years in orbit. Officials will not say what the spacecraft are doing up there.
SpaceX launches top-secret space shuttle before Irma hits Florida
Mysterious space plane blasts off for secretive US air force mission
Read more
The crewless aircraft, a technology testing mini-shuttle capable of spending years in orbit, rode an unmanned Falcon rocket on the fifth such flight.
There are two X-37B orbital test vehicles in existence, and between them they have already logged five and a half years in orbit. Officials will not say what the spacecraft are doing up there.
SpaceX launches top-secret space shuttle before Irma hits Florida
