Air Force Launching Secretive X-37B Space Plane in October, Could Land in Fla.

The U.S. military's hush-hush robotic X-37B space plane is slated to blast off again next month, Air Force officials say.

The mission will test the robotic spacecraft's reusability and may eventually land on the Florida runway once used for NASA space shuttles.

The X-37B space plane's next mission — called Orbital Test Vehicle-3, or OTV-3, because it is the program's third-ever spaceflight — is scheduled to launch aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) sometime in October.

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