The sun and McMoon’s – Citizen group commandeers retired NASA satellite, Mountain View Voice
“The scrappy bunch of students, entrepreneurs and former NASA scientists who work out of “McMoon’s” — an abandoned McDonald’s at Moffett Field — are at it again. They’re using crowdfunding to take control of an abandoned 1978 NASA satellite to study the weather on the sun, potentially predicting impacts on earth from climate change and dangerous solar storms. It’s not the first time the group in the shuttered McDonald’s has won public interest in a project. A few years ago the group made headlines for its efforts to digitize reams of film of high-resolution images of the moon taken during the Apollo missions in the 1960s.”