{"id":97971,"date":"2019-10-29T21:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T04:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/air-forces-mystery-space-plane-lands-ends-2-year-mission"},"modified":"2019-10-29T21:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T04:22:31","slug":"air-forces-mystery-space-plane-lands-ends-2-year-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/air-forces-mystery-space-plane-lands-ends-2-year-mission","title":{"rendered":"Air Force\u2019s mystery space plane lands, ends 2-year mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-forces-mystery-space-plane-lands-ends-2-year-mission3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Air Force\u2019s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission.<\/p>\n<p>The X-37B landed at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force is mum about what the plane did in orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2017. The 780-day mission sets a new endurance record for the reusable test vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space+shuttle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space shuttle<\/a> but is one-fourth the size at 29 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force\u2019s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission. The X-37B landed at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force is mum about what the plane did in orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2017. The 780-day mission sets a new endurance record [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}