Well, outy there internet people, it's bow again. So today we are going to talk about secrets

in space, in space planes, and something called the X-37, which returned to Earth earlier this month.

Okay, so the X-37 with flight O-T-V-6. O-T-V, standing for orbital test vehicle 6, meaning the sixth flight. This is a space plane type thing. It

looks like a little baby space shuttle. It's pretty short. I want to say it's

like 30 feet long or something like that.

If you see a photo of it without something for reference as to size, you would be

forgiven for thinking it is roughly the same size as a space

shuttle it's not it's tiny on O TV six it was up there for nine hundred and eight

days nine hundred and eight days.

Nine hundred and eight days this thing spent in space.

There are two, we think, of these aircraft.

The US government has two of these aircraft.

And together they have spent around a little more than 10 years in space.

Why haven't you heard about it?

Because it's kind of secretive.

It's not a

the existence isn't a secret but there's a lot of secrecy surrounding this thing

So brief history

Started as a joint NASA DARPA project, I think, back in 1999. It became a DOD project, Department of Defense in 2004.

Now, what does it do while it's up there, right?

That's the big question so it conducts

experiments it experiments it's a scientific thing you can find information information about it testing the effects of space on seeds so you know we can

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