After nearly two years in orbit on a top-secret mission, the Air Force's X-37B unmanned space plane landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, on Friday.
The X-37B is slated to launch again in 2015, from its new home base in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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