How SpaceX Could Become Space Force's No. 1 Defense Contractor

For more than a decade Boeing (NYSE: BA) has operated a reusable spy spacecraft called the X-37B -- mostly in secret.

Americans got their first glimpse of the vehicle -- which resembles a miniature, 29-foot-long, silicon-coated version of the Space Shuttle -- when it returned from a seven-month maiden flight through Earth orbit to land at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2012.

Welcome back, X-37B. Image source: Boeing.

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