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RE: X-37B/OTV

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A prototype spaceplane built for the US military has returned to Earth after seven months in orbit.
The unpiloted X-37B touched down at Vandenberg Air Force base in California at 0116 PST (0916 GMT).
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The U.S. Air Force's secrecy-shrouded X-37B unmanned spaceplane has returned to Earth after more than seven months in orbit on a classified mission.
Air Force spokesman Jeremy Eggers says the winged craft autonomously landed at 1:16 a.m. PST Friday at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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The X-37B successfully landed at the Vandenberg Air Force Base at 01:16 PST, 3rd December, 2010.

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X-37B landing opportunities

05:55:15 Pacific Standard Time (UTC - 8:00), 3rd December
05:57:15 Pacific Standard Time (UTC - 8:00), 4th December

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Preparations underway for first landing of X-37B

Preparations for the first landing of the X-37B are underway at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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After more than seven months circling the planet, the Air Force's unmanned miniature space shuttle is poised to land at Vandenberg Air Force Base, possibly as soon as Friday.
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A miniature robotic space shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral in April has completed a nine-month classified mission for the military and will be headed for a landing as early as Friday, Air Force officials said on Tuesday.
The vehicle, known as the Orbital Test Vehicle or X-37B, is expected to land at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California between Friday and Monday, depending on weather and technical considerations, the Air Force said in a statement.
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Wreckage put on display at museum

The chunk of an Air Force rocket that washed ashore on Hilton Head Island in May was headed for the scrap heap until a Beaufort County sheriff's captain suggested a new home: the Coastal Discovery Museum.
Capt. Toby McSwain helped retrieve the 12-foot by 20-foot piece of rocket fairing - used to reduce drag on a rocket - on the beach. He then called museum president and CEO Michael Marks with the idea that local schoolchildren might want to see it.
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Greg Roberts seems like an ordinary grandfather from a quiet suburb - but the amateur satellite tracker has been labelled a threat to US national security.
The 70-year-old's modest Cape Town home is teeming with computers, telescopes, lenses, radio transmitters, cables, video monitors and cameras.
Last month, using a home-made telescope, Roberts found and recorded footage of a secret space craft - the X-37B - developed by the US Air Force.
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TLE Data

X-37B                                                   
1 36514U 10015A   10143.39927801  .00002164  00000-0  33855-4 0    08
2 36514  39.9921 169.4496 0015676 209.9290 150.0626 15.52672217    07