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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"Space Shuttle Era"? by Quinn_Inuit · 2014-01-04 01:01 · Score: 3, Insightful

I know how much was wrong with the shuttle program, but I still get depressed every time I hear it referred to in the past tense.

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Re:US Lost the space race by tomhath · 2014-01-04 01:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

The US is so far ahead of anyone else in space that there is no longer a race being run. What other country could make a soft landing on one of Saturn's moons? How many other countries have rovers exploring Mars? Who else sent a probe out of the Solar System into interstellar space?