Google execs offer to pay $33M to save Hangar One

Showing benevolent side of their personalities, three Google executives offered NASA $33 million to renovate the iconic Moffett Field airship house- Hangar One.

Hanger One at NASA’s Moffett Field in Mountain View, a giant eight-acre structure that was designed to house military airships back in 1933, is in disarray and badly needs renovation.

Google chief executive Larry Page, executive chairman Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin have proposed paying the complete $33 million cost of renovating the historic landmark.

The proposal was actually tabled through a firm owned jointly by the three executives, called H211, in September this year. But, the committee overseeing the renovation work of the building disclosed the offer at a meeting last week.

The committee also revealed that three executive want to use up to two-thirds of the building’s floor space to house their eight private jets.

However, the firm H211 is not trying to acquire Hangar One from NASA. The space agency will continue to retain ownership of the structure and will be able to lease out space to others.

Space agency NASA said the offer was under its consideration.


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