NASA Ames Research Center issued a March 29 notice of its intent to purchase flight services from Airship Ventures Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that conducts sight-seeing flights aboard a 12-passenger Zeppelin NT107 blimp. A 2008 lease agreement with NASA allows Airship Ventures to store the blimp in a World War II-era hangar located at Ames’ Moffett Field.

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