and several University of California campuses. In November 2014, NASA awarded Planetary Ventures -- a Google subsidiary -- a 60-year ground lease covering approximately 1,000 acres of Moffett Federal Airfield; the lease, valued at $1.16 billion over its term, requires Planetary Ventures to restore the airfield's historic hangars and fund airfield operations.

Background

Congress established Ames Research Center in 1939 as the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory under the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

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