Hangar One, Moffett Field. NASA Ames Moffett Airfield, California. September 21, 2012. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Hangar One on the day of the Space Shuttle Endeavour flyover at Moffett Field
Since I’ve already posted a bit of a longer description of this subject, I’ll keep this description a bit on the short side. The skeletal structure is the historic “Hangar One” at the NASA Ames Moffett Airfield, formerly known as “Moffett Field,” among other names. I was there in the early morning, arriving just about sunrise on this late September day to be in position for the flyover of Space Shuttle Endeavour on the last leg of its final flight aboard its carrier aircraft as it travelled on its way to a new home at a museum in Los Angeles.
Because I had to arrive so early for the shuttle flyover, I had more than three hours to hang out on the airfield grounds and make photographs of various things. Fortunately, it turned out to be a morning with some very beautiful clouds in the sky – something of a rarity for this part of California at this time of year. As the puffy, high clouds from what I presume was some tropical moisture floated overhead, I turned my camera to Hangar One and made a few photographs of its form against this sky. For those who are not familiar with Hangar One, Moffett Field was once used for lighter than air craft, and this huge hangar (the size of six football fields inside) was used to hold and service them. It originally was covered by an outer steel skin, but that had to be removed for environmental reasons. There is some hope that it will eventually be restored with a new skin.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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