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Boeing Moving X-37B Operations To the Kennedy Space Center 35

schwit1 writes "A spy plane used by the U.S. Air Force is about to get a new home: a garage at Kennedy Space Center that once housed NASA orbiters during the space shuttle era. The move was announced Friday by Boeing, the Chicago-based company that built the X-37B orbital test vehicle and is in charge of repairing the spacecraft whenever it returns to Earth. Previously, Boeing had refurbished the 29-foot-long spacecraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but the company decided to relocate its fix-up shop in Florida, where the vehicle now launches."
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Boeing Moving X-37B Operations To the Kennedy Space Center

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  • manned cabin (Score:5, Informative)

    by l0n3s0m3phr34k ( 2613107 ) on Saturday January 04, 2014 @03:44AM (#45863909)
    since Boeing showed these [space.com] 2 years ago, I'm sure the retrofit is ready by now. The Air Force will never give up their backdoor access to space. This picture [nasaspaceflight.com] here is about all I can find...but if they drew out plans like that then the Air Force probably has it built already.

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