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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane made a pre-dawn landing Oct. 27 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after spending 780 days in orbit, breaking its own record by 62 days.
The Air Force said the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5) mission officially ended at 3:51 a.m. Eastern with a successful runway landing at NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility. The mission originally launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Sept. 7, 2017.
