Cold War Surveys were conducted at NASA Ames Research Center and Crows Landing Flight Facility to determine if any assets or structures located at these facilities could be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places relating to the significance a property could have achieved during the Cold War.

Buildings were first identified as being present during the period of significance (1947- 1991) and subsequently evaluated for significance taking into consideration and consistent with the Secretary of Interiors Standards and Guidelines for Identification and Evaluation.

Criteria Consideration G, which was used for this survey and evaluation, states: "Properties that have Achieved Significance within the Past 50 Years - A property achieving significance within the last fifty years is eligible if it is of exceptional importance."

The Cold War was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between a worldwide military alliance of capitalist states led by the United States and a rival alliance of communist states led by the Soviet Union. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. The global contest was popularly named The Cold War because open hostilities never occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage, and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most important direct confrontation, together with a series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The major civil wars polarized along Cold War lines were the Greek Civil War, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War, along with more peripheral conflicts in Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

None of the properties at NASA Ames Research Center or Crows Landing Flight Facility were found to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places relating to National Register Criteria G (36 CFR Part 60.4).

Individual Forms:
--> Select a building number from the drop down list below to view its corresponding 523 evaluation form.

NASA Crows Landing: + Azimuth Antenna/Shelter

Interactive Map:

--> To download 523 forms by building location using interactive maps, click on any of the five regions of the map on the right.

(NOTE: The map will open in a new window.)

Cold War Resources Report:
--> Below is an electronic version of the Final Inventory and Evaluation of Cold War Era Historical Resources at Moffett Federal Airfield and the NASA Crows Landing Flight Facility, dated March 1999. Due to its large size, the document is split into five separate files.

+ 1. Table of Contents and Report (4.4 MB PDF file)

+ 2. Appendix, DPR 523 Forms (part 1) (7 MB PDF file)

+ 3. Appendix, DPR 523 Forms (part 2) (9 MB PDF file)

+ 4. Appendix, DPR 523 Forms (part 3) (6 MB PDF file)

+ 5. Appendix, DPR 523 Forms (part 4) (4 MB PDF file)