US military's mystery space plane rockets back into orbit

The previous mission lasted a record two years, with a touchdown shrouded in darkness at NASA's Kennedy Space Center last year. The winged spacecraft resembles NASA’s old shuttles, but is just one-quarter the size at 29 feet (9 meters) long. The Air Force has two of these reusable space planes.

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