Boeing is moving its X-37B operations to the Kennedy Space Center.
Boeing is moving its X-37B operations to the Kennedy Space Center.
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 spy plane 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 is moving its X-37B operations to the Kennedy Space Center.
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 spy plane 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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
When did they start calling it a spy plane?
That’s just an example of poor journalism. No one with any knowledge of the X-37b would call it a spy plane. It ain’t a plane and most of what it does probably has little to do with spying.
I was actually reluctant to link this particular article but it actually had the most details of all the stories I read on the subject, despite being poorly written (as you noticed).
Could the move be part of a program to transfer the X37B to NASA control?
Unlikely. More likely the military wants greater flexibility in its orbital options, and launching from Kennedy gives them that.
Its sort of like NASCAR racing teams.
They rent space at the tracks just to make sure they have repair facilities close to the action so to say.
No need to cart the craft all over the country just to fix it and then launch it.