Google's restoration of the mammoth Hangar One now complete

For anyone who has driven Highway 101 through Mountain View, California, Hangar One at Moffett Field is as familiar as the mountains in the distance. For most of the past decade, though, it was a haunt rather than a landmark – a hulking steel skeleton and reminder of engineering ambition looming over Silicon Valley. That changed last month. On March 20, officials and community members gathered inside the fully restored hangar to mark a moment many had stopped believing would ever come.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: NASA, Ames Laboratory, Airships, Blimp, Google, Aviation