A space shuttle is stolen from the back of a plane

From Secret Agent Luke Warm and the Demented Billionaire Who Keeps Stealing Rockets

It was so dark you could hear a pin drop. The night sky above England was as black as night, and down below the entire country was fast asleep; millions of eyes moving rapidly behind millions of eyelids as millions of brains’ hippocampus cortexes served up millions of dreams. In a few hours, millions of alarm clocks would sound and millions of yawns would signal the start of millions of days, but for now, all of England was silent – save for the sound of a single hooting pigeon.

Above the clouds, it was a different story. A deafening sound filled the air as a NASA N905NA Boeing 747-100 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft roared towards its destination. Sitting on its back was an Enterprise OV-69 space shuttle with the word SATURNSCRAPER printed on the side in large black type. Together, the two planes marched forward as one; a singular, hulking marvel of British aeronautical engineering.

Sitting in the cockpit of the Boeing were three pilots in uniform; two at the controls and one in the backgroun…