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Cape Town - Space has always been the next frontier, the illusive journey to aspire to as the corners of the globe become all too familiar. So when you hear that a top-secret space plane has landed at an air force base in the US, after circling the globe for the past 22-months you have to wonder, could it be more achievable than the space tourism pioneers Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are letting on?
Watch the landing of the space plane here.
The Guardian reports the plane known as X-37B, spent nearly two years circling Earth on a classified mission.
Resembling a weird looking version of a mini space shuttle, the plane has spark wild speculation since a written release simply it had been conducting “on-orbit experiments”
Unconfirmed theories suggest it had a payload of spy gear in its cargo bay, while others speculate the spacecraft was able to capture the satellites of other nations or even perhaps shadow China’s space lab.
According to the report, the air force plans to launch the fourth X-37B mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2015.
We'll be watching.
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