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Boeing Moving X-37B Operations To the Kennedy Space Center
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."
since Boeing showed these 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 here is about all I can find...but if they drew out plans like that then the Air Force probably has it built already.
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.
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.
Stop learning! Only you can prevent esoterrorism.
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?
my guess would be they are going for the lower latitudes.
launching from higher latitudes requires more fuel for the same orbit.
so either they are lifting a heavier load or going for a higher orbit.
to move just to save money would be totally out of character for the U.S. Gov.