Of course, if you support Wikileaks, you will also support doing away with ITAR (allowing foreign nationals access to our secrets), tax evasions, and Soros’ New WOGG (World Order Global Governance) — all to “level the global playing field” (i.e. a more flat world).

DJ from San Jose

Grassley believes NASA should be limited to funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to a few big GOP contributors for a giant government-micromanaged program with no useful products.

$1.3 million per year in Google payments to NASA, plus extra fees for utilities, fuel and parking:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/13/BUPRS4MHA.DTL

If you’re going to criticize Google, at least use their search engine before posting ignorant questions.

Note also that Scott Hubard was dismissed from Ames on pretty trivial charges.

This is vicious.

One problem Ames and NASA had and have was and is the use and maintenance of the dirigible hangar, a Bay area landmark.

AW – Google operates in an international environment.

Personally, on taking power in 2008 the Democrats should have made sure that Griffin answered Contempt of Congress charges for his response to the George Brown Jr amendment. It should have resulted in a GAO report, at a minimum.

It would have impaired ATK’s attacks.

“Whistleblowers have questioned the benefit to the U.S. government from the Google fleet being housed at Moffett Airfield.”

The priorities of Grassley are questionable and it would better serve the nation if a U.S. senator focused on why Raptor fighter jets, which cost $400-plus million a piece, have faulty 02 systems which impair pilots.

I do find it a bit troubling how a personnel transport fleet (probably somewhat luxuriously outfitted) can be seamlessly shared with instrumentation that requires a lot of hands-on access. Cables on the floor and instrumentation engineers and scientists traipsing through it don’t quite seem consistent with a corporate personnel transport aircraft. Scheduling must be a mess as well. Is the science being done not time-critical, such that Sergei can roll in and tell them to postpone it?

The use of KSC launch facilities for commercial purposes not involving NASA has some relevance in this regard, I would think.

Of course, Ames originally cleared out and cleaned up 211 to make room for SOFIA, before that aircraft was sent to Palmdale/DFRC. Ames is desperate to do something useful with 211. Not too much more you can do with a hanger other than putting airplanes in it.

Good for Senator Grassley. When I first heard of this deal making years ago I wondered the same thing. What interest can NASA possibly have housing Sergei Brin’s 767? Can anyone be surprised that the leftist transnationals at Google run their own foreign policy out of Moffett? Get them out, now. And make an example of the director of NASA Ames.