Top secret American spy plane returns to Earth after seven months... but U.S. still won't say what it was doing in space

The U.S.'s first unmanned re-entry spacecraft landed at an airfield today, seven months after it was launched.

The X-37B's exact purpose remained shrouded in secrecy when it touched-down at at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast 130 miles north west of Los Angeles.

It was launched by an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 22, with a maximum mission duration of 270 days and is suspected of being an advanced spy plane... Full Story>>