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The 30-foot-long, robotic, X-37B military ship — which has gained fame both for its secret missions as well as its ability to stay in orbit for so long — ended its most recent trip at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, according to Space Force and USA Today. //
The unmanned little spacecraft, which looks like a mini-shuttle, spent a record-breaking 908 days in orbit, or 118 days more than its previous record, USA Today said.
The reusable Boeing vehicle, now done with its sixth mission, has traveled 1.3 billion miles over the course of 3,774 days in space. It has been whizzing around Earth on various trips since 2010.
While X-37B’s primary missions are mainly secretive, it does perform secondary tasks that are publicized, the outlet said.
Several NASA experiments were completed during the record-breaking mission, the military Space Force said in a statement.