NASA Plays Zeppelin!!

The Airship Ventures' Zeppelin ended its dramatic cross-country trek and landed at its new base location at Moffett Field on Oct. 25, 2008, at approximately 2 p.m. PDT. This airship is the first to fly over the U.S. for more than 70 years. NASA and Airship Ventures entered into an agreement to use the airship to assist with disaster response agencies, for scientific research and educational training with local science centers and museums.
http://www1.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html
http://www.airshipventures.com/index.php

Airship Ventures Inc. is a private company offering sight-seeing rides (which the company calls "flightseeing") in a 12-passenger Zeppelin NT out of a World War II United States Navy hanger at Moffett Federal Airfield near Mountain View, California.

Their airship, built by Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, is as of 2008 one of only three zeppelins in the world. Dedicated and christened Eureka at the 75th anniversary celebration for Moffett Field on November 21, 2008, at 246 feet long it is the largest airship in the world. Its flight en-route from Beaumont, Texas, where it was shipped, to the Bay Area was the first zeppelin flight in the United States in 71 years.

The company is owned by a husband-wife team, Alexandra and Brian Hall of Los Gatos, California. Alexandra Hall previously ran the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California. Katherine "Kate" Board is the only female airship pilot in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship_Ventures

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