A Year Later, Mysterious Space Plane Is Still in Orbit

The Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane gets more mysterious by the day. Designed to spend up to nine months skipping across orbits on its unspecified errands, the second copy of the Boeing-made craft has now been in space for a year and two days -- and is still going strong. The endurance milestone is unqualified good news for America's space force at a time when its funding and future missions are in doubt.

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