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.