[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Moffett Field (CA) museum proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

An air and space museum for Hangar One?
Preservationists organize 'Smithsonian West' campaign

by Daniel Debolt
Mountain View Voice
July 22, 2010

Preservationists who have been fighting to save Moffett Field's historic 
Hangar One are now organizing an "promising" effort to use the massive 
building for a major West Coast satellite of the Smithsonian.

Environmentalist Lenny Siegel, pilot Steve Williams and County Airports 
director Carl Honaker are among the Save Hangar One Committee leaders on 
the board of the newly formed Air and Space West Foundation. The three 
are leaders of a group that has been fighting to save Hangar One as the 
Navy moves to strip the hangar down to a bare frame in order to remove 
contamination from the structure by next year.

The group is thinking farther into Hangar One's future. Hopes are that 
with enough interest and financial backing from donors, Hangar One could 
be home to a major earth, air and space museum -- possibly as one of 
numerous satellite museums that operate under the umbrella of the 
Smithsonian Institute in the United States.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=3140&e=y

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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