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December 11, 2012

Air Force Launches Secret X-37B Spacecraft into Orbit

Marcia Dunn, Associated Press


Associated Press

The military's small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind.

The Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday hidden on top of an Atlas V rocket.

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