Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

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The U.S. Air Force X-37B mini-space plane has winged past 200 days of flight performing secretive duties during the program’s fifth flight.

Labeled the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5), the robotic spacecraft was hurled into Earth orbit on September 7 of last year atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

For more details on this current mission, go to my new Space.com story:

Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 200 Days in Orbit

April 6, 2018 05:17pm ET

https://www.space.com/40227-x-37b-space-plane-200-days-in-orbit-otv5.html