Beskrivning : As scheduled, OTV-1 de-orbited, reentered Earth`s atmosphere, and landed successfully at Vandenberg AFB on 3 December 2010, at 09:16 UTC, conducting America`s first autonomous orbital landing onto a runway; the first spacecraft to perform such a feat was the Soviet Buran shuttle in 1988. In all, OTV-1 spent 224 days in space. OTV-1 suffered a tire blowout during landing and sustained minor damage to its underside.
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