Moffett Field is a famous airfield in Mountain View, California, right next to San Francisco Bay. It was built in the 1930s as a home for the United States Navy’s giant airships. Today, NASA Ames Research Center is located here, and Google leases a big part of the land. The most famous thing at Moffett Field is a huge building called Hangar One, which you can see from far away!
Hangar One is one of the biggest buildings in the world. It is 1,133 feet long, 308 feet wide, and 198 feet tall. That means it covers about eight acres, which is enough room for seven football fields! The Navy built Hangar One in the early 1930s to hold a giant airship called the USS Macon. The building is so big that people say clouds can form inside it on foggy days. You can spot Hangar One from highways and trails all around the South Bay.
In the early 1930s, the U.S. Navy needed a place on the West Coast to keep its giant airships. People in the area raised money to buy the land and gave it to the government for just one dollar! The Navy built Hangar One and brought a huge airship called the USS Macon here in 1933. The Macon was 785 feet long, longer than two football fields placed end to end. Sadly, the Macon crashed into the ocean in a storm in 1935. The field was named after Admiral William Moffett, a Navy leader who helped build naval aviation. During World War II, the Navy used Moffett Field to fly blimps that watched for enemy submarines. In 1994, the Navy left and NASA took over. Then in 2014, Google signed a 60-year lease to use much of the land.
OtterKnow Kids Encyclopedia
