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

Posted by timothy on Friday January 3, 2014 @07:12PM from the so-they-can-hang-out-with-the-spacex-guys dept.

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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Re:I wish they wouldn't by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2014-01-03 20:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Why can't we just demilitarize NASA. The military already has their own Space Command, so why do they have to fuck with NASA as well?
Why do dogs piss on trees? Or XBL kiddies teabag corpses in Halo?

Because winning just isn't as much fun if you don't mark your territory.