My original point was what was the USAF going to do with the vehicle once they had finished with and I suggested they could pass them to NASA, so I am not sure where Boeing come into this, I only suggested them as I thought you meant NASA needed a commercial company to sell space on it on their behalf.Of course all of the above is predicated on my belief that the USAF owned it. So is it the case that it is not owed by the USAF?
Boeing comes into it, as neither the USAF nor NASA would sell commercial flights, but Boeing could in theory. What you are suggesting is basically what SpaceX is selling as DragonLab. If DragonLab were to really take off, there might be some incentive for Boeing to make a commercial X-37, but that's really stretching it.More likely (but still not very probable) would be Boeing developing a "CST-200" that was runway-recoverable with X-37 heritage. But that would only come after a commercial crew operator (themselves or SpaceX) starts to become really profitable.
