Editing Orbiter Processing Facility (section)

==Current status==
OPF-1 was closed following ''Atlantis'''s rollout on June 29, 2012. OPF-2 is now inactive following ''Atlantis''{{'}}s departure on October 18, 2012. OPF-3 is under lease to Boeing for the manufacture and testing of their [[CST-100 Starliner]] spacecraft.<ref>{{cite web |title=Boeing to Build Private Space Taxis in Old NASA Shuttle Hangar |date=2011-10-31 |website=[[Space.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627052514/https://www.space.com/13453-nasa-leases-shuttle-hangar-boeing-space-taxi.html |archive-date=2023-06-27 |url-status=live |url=http://www.space.com/13453-nasa-leases-shuttle-hangar-boeing-space-taxi.html}}</ref>

On 8 October 2014, NASA confirmed that [[Boeing X-37B]] vehicles would be housed at [[Kennedy Space Center]] in OPF-1 and 2, hangars previously occupied by the Space Shuttle. Boeing had said the space planes would use OPF-1 in January 2014, and the Air Force had previously said it was considering consolidating X-37B operations, housed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, nearer to their launch site at Cape Canaveral. NASA also stated that the program had completed tests to determine whether the X-37B, one-fourth the size of the Space Shuttle, could land on the former Shuttle runways.<ref name="floridatoday20141008"/> NASA furthermore stated that renovations of the two hangars would be completed by the end of 2014; the main doors of OPF-1 were marked with the message "Home of the X-37B" by this point.<ref name="floridatoday20141008">{{cite news |url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2014/10/08/secretive-x37b-space-plane-will-use-nasa-space-shuttle-hangars/16930223/ |title=NASA: Secret X-37B space plane will use shuttle hangars |work=[[Florida Today]] |first=James |last=Dean |date=8 October 2014 |access-date=9 October 2014}}</ref>