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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. military’s secretive X-37B unmanned spaceplane slipped out of orbit and landed itself in early- morning darkness Friday at a California air base after a successful maiden flight that lasted more than seven months, the Air Force said.
The Air Force had emphasized that the primary purpose of the flight was to test the craft itself, but classified its actual activities in orbit, leading to speculation about whether it carried some type of spying system in its small payload bay.
