X-37B Completes 220-Day Mission
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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Air Force is reviewing test data from the first X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-1), which completed a picture-perfect autonomous landing at 1:16 a.m. Pacific Time at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., on Dec. 3 after a 220-day space mission.
The flight is the first successful runway recovery of an autonomous space vehicle since the 1988 demonstration ...![](http://images.aviationnewsrelease.com/Home/aviation_news_release_4a.jpg)