With a wingspan of 15 feet and a length of 27.5 feet, the X-37 looks like a tiny space shuttle. It has a blunt (though windowless) nose, and one rocket engine bell instead of the shuttle's three.

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995 ... on wing leading edges and added reinforced carbon-carbon blankets under the nose. The shuttle has deployed six Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, beginning ...

The U.S. military's mini space shuttle has returned to Earth after circling the world on another secretive mission that lasted 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from Nasa's Kennedy ...

Story continues below It was just the third official mission of the decade-old Space Shuttle program ... but not without a little drama as the nose of the plane tipped upwards.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA ...

This photo provided by United States Space Force the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7), the U.S. Space Force’s dynamic unmanned spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at Vandenberg ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

(United States Space Force via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. The space plane blasted into orbit from NASA ...