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Air Force's X-37B space plane makes first Florida landing on shuttle runway [i]The U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B mini-space plane has landed after a record 718 days in Earth orbit, touching down for the first time on the Florida runway historically used by NASA's space shuttles. "The Air Force X-37B OTV-4 has returned from orbit and has landed safely at NASA Kennedy," the Air Force wrote on Twitter just before 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) on Sunday (May 7). Local residents reported on social media of being woken by sonic booms as the vehicle decelerated through the speed of sound. The uncrewed X-37B, or Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), came to a wheels stop along Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF). Launched on May 20, 2015, Sunday's touchdown brought the OTV-4 mission to its end at one year, 11 months and 17 days, the X-37B's longest flight to date.[/i]
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