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Google Moon Adds New Content From NASA

The Google Moon Web site now has new higher resolution lunar imagery and maps that include NASA multimedia content.

Google's Big Plane, Using NASA's Big Runway...

Wow, I go away on vacation for one week and the media goes gaga over Google - what’s new, right?

Google Guys Get NASA Airstrip Deal

The massive 767-200 Google jet will be able to land at Mountain View's highly coveted Moffett Field, thanks to a deal with NASA.

Former Astronaut Gets Aboard Google

Google and NASA have worked next to and with each other for a number of years; I’ve never been bothered by this fact, and I’m not complaining now.  Yet the lines are getting even more blurred as former astronaut Ed Lu has gained a job with the search engine giant.

NASA To Digitize Space Images

NASA and the Internet Archive are partnering to scan, archive and mange the agency's large collection of photographs, film and video. The imagery will be available online and free to the public.

Microsoft Photosynth Focuses On Endeavour

Google Earth recently added a “NASA layer,” and new reports indicate that Microsoft’s also interested in the agency; Photosynth, the company’s digital photo “technology preview,” has made three-dimensional images of Endeavour.

Google Earth Gets NASA Layer

Google Earth has just released a new layer, and within it, there are three different parts.  Each comes courtesy of NASA, and they’re called Astronaut Photography of Earth, Satellite Imagery, and Earth City Lights.

NASA's Virtual World For Kids

Numedeon, Inc., creators of Whyville the educational virtual world for children and young teenagers, has created a site for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that offers children a virtual trip around the lab. The goal of the virtual site is to educate students about space exploration and raise awareness of the JPL facility before they take a physical tour. The new site is an avatar-based virtual world built on the same software engine as Whyville.

Google/NASA Enter Space Pact

Google and NASA Ames Research Center have signed a "Space Act Agreement" to pool their collective technological expertise to address issues ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces.

Google Goes To Mars

While Google has not reported completion of their fabled 'space elevator', they have made it easier to explore the Red Planet through a specially crafted version of Google Maps.