In October 2019, the Boeing X-37 returned to Earth after spending 778 days in orbit. Unlike typical NASA missions, this spaceplane operated under military secrecy. Its return to the Kennedy Space ...

The X-37B is a bit like NASA's Space Shuttle — however it is uncrewed and launched as a payload as opposed to on the side of boosters. According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation ...

Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ...

The aerospace titan and U.S. Space Force on Tuesday said the spacecraft’s eighth mission, OTV-8, is scheduled to launch on August 21 from Boeing’s facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ...

Built by Boeing Co.’s advanced research lab, Phantom Works, in Huntington Beach, Calif., the X-37 would be the first U.S. unmanned spacecraft to be launched into space and land on its own.

Boeing Phantom Works president George Meullner says the X-37 would be launched on an expendable booster rather than deployed from the Space Shuttle payload bay as first planned. The 8.4m (27.5ft ...

The Boeing X-37 tests show the viability of being able to launch as a rocket, but land like a plane. It was sent up vertically, using the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and successfully touched back down ...

With that craft scheduled to be retired from service next year the U.S. Air Force's Boeing X-37 program is focused on demonstrating a next generation unmanned reusable spaceplane.

The X-37B program has been an orphan of sorts, bouncing since its inception in 1999 between several federal agencies, NASA among them. It now resides under the Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office.

After an experimental test mission lasting over 220 days, the Boeing X-37B successfully de-orbited and landed safely at Vandenberg Air Force Base last week, making it the United States' first ...