This top-secret US space plane could reshape space warfare forever

Earlier this month, in the dead of night, a mysterious spacecraft touched down at Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, California. The craft in question was the eerily-named X-37B - an experimental and highly secretive US government project that has been quietly unfolding for more than a decade. Details about the X-37B and its mission remain scarce. Over the years, only drips of information have emerged, allowing us - the unwitting public - to piece together fragments of what's happening above our heads. While the race to return to the Moon plays out in full view - driven by…