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Thursday, December 05, 2013

US Air Force's X37-B Secret 'Space Shuttle' Nears Year In Space

A mysterious space craft built and launched by the US Air Force has now spent roughly a year in orbit around Earth - though no one knows what it's doing there.

The X37-B spy plane is an unmanned drone similar in outward appearance to the Space Shuttle, though much smaller and without the capacity to carry astronauts.

The 11,000-pound craft is only 29 feet long, 15 wide and about a quarter of the size of the now-retired Space Shuttle.

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