The X-37B program was developed as part of a partnership between the US Air Force's Rapid Capabilities Office and the US Space Force. Current plans call for the United States Air Force to allocate ...

Deporting Elon Musk and curtailing SpaceX's operations would significantly set back US space exploration, potentially ceding leadership to China. The US space program previously struggled with costly ...

Officially designated the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), the X-37 program began in 1999 under NASA as a testbed for reusable spacecraft technologies, ie., advanced thermal protection, autonomous reentry, ...

Thirty years of flight by NASA's space shuttles will end once Atlantis returns home from this last mission. The space agency will be looking to deeper space exploration, but the future is still ...

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle–shaped vehicle on the program’s ...