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Google Starts Renovation For Hangar One In Moffett Field, Mountain View



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON MAY 12, 2022

Google has started work on renovating one of the largest freestanding structures in the world, Hangar One in Moffett Field, Mountain View, Santa Clara County. Crews will restore the 1933-built air hangar for Google’s Planetary Ventures unit for technological research and testing. The initial phase will include recoating, which will take around two years.

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Hangar One was built in 1933 during the Great Depression as part of Admiral William A. Moffett’s vision for Naval Aviation. The mid-century design, shaped like an elongated dome, is 198 feet tall, 308 feet wide, 1,133 feet long, or around a fifth of a mile long. Its interior covers eight acres, enough to contain the Salesforce Park with 2.6 acres to spare.

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NASA took control of the site from the Navy in 1994. In 2003, toxins from the hangar’s exterior panels were discovered. The US Navy removed these panels in 2011 and cleaned up toxic materials, leaving NASA in charge of reskinning. By 2014, Google started a 60-year lease for the 1,000-acre Moffett Field Site for $1.6 billion, including repurposing the three existing airship hangers into laboratories. The space is expected to help Google’s Planetary Ventures unit study robots, rovers, drones, balloons, and other technology. Still, Google remains vague about the details of why Number One will be used.

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