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Air Force

X-37B Space Plane Lands Back on Earth after Over Two Years in Orbit

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, October 28th, 2019

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X-37B Space Plane Lands Back on Earth after Over Two Years in Orbit

The Air Force's X-37B orbital test vehicle mission 5 landed Oct. 27, 2019, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. (Photo: Air Force)

The Air Force said Oct. 27 that its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 has successfully landed after more than two years in orbit, breaking its own record. The fifth mission launched on Sept. 7, 2017 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a Space X Falcon 9 booster, per a Sunday release. Boeing [BA] developed the X-37B, a reusable and unmanned spacecraft performing experiments in space for the Air Force. The sixth mission is being prepared to launch…

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