The Flight Simulation Group is an organization of students
associated with the Aerospace Engineering Department of the
California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.
It was an opportunity for us to defray some of the
fixed costs . . . to maintain the airfield as well as to have
flights of opportunity for our science missions. It seemed like a
win-win situation."
Source: Steven Zornetzer, with NASA's Ames
Research Facility at Moffett Field, CA. Google co-founders Larry
Page and Sergey Brin recently signed a $1.3 million deal with the
space agency, to use NASA's Moffett Field test facility runway for
their private 767-200 corporate jet, as well as two Gulfstream
Vs.
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