If you hear sonic booms Tuesday morning, it could be the military’s secret, robotic, X-37B space plane coming in for a landing at Kennedy Space Center.
NASASpaceflight.com reported the possible landing by the unmanned, experimental space plane, citing notices about clearing the air space around the center. No information about the possible landing was posted on the website or social media pages for the Air Force’s 45th Space Wing, which usually handles such announcements.
The space plane has spent two years in orbit in a program run by Boeing. It launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in 2015 on top of a ULA Atlas V rocket .
Prior landings of the space plane happened at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, which remains available as a landing site.
The last time a space plane, or shuttle, landed since Atlantis touched down to conclude the shuttle program in July 2011.
SpaceX launch from 39A to be historic first »
Besides the landing, the Space Coast is now focused on its next big launch, also a historic first at KSC: SpaceX has targeted Saturday morning as its next possible launch window, from Launch Complex 39A, which hosted the Apollo 11 mission and hasn’t been used since the last shuttle launch in 2011.
The mission will likely be closely watched, as space enthusiasts and historians anticipate a return to the pad that has seen some famous flights in space travel history.
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