Google And NASA To Collaborate On Technology

Mike Peel writes "The BBC reports that Google will be assisting NASA with new technology from a campus facility in the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field." From the article: "As part of the venture, Google will develop one million square feet of real estate at the Nasa Ames research centre. The centre, built in 1939, has been at the heart of the US space program for many years, conducting research into the Apollo moon missions between 1963 and 1972. Nasa recently unveiled plans to make another moon landing by 2020. Examples of areas of potential collaboration include the development of new types of remote sensors and improving analysis of engineering problems." More details available from the official press release and MSNBC.

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Just a real-estate leasing deal...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's just a glorified real-estate leasing deal, which will use up some of the office space created by the latest layoffs at NASA-Ames:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/127 63469.htm

Google Earth vs. NASA World Wind

[KeiserSoze]

For a second there when I saw "Google and NASA collaborating on technology" I had a vain hope that it would be a reference to NASA World Wind. For those unsure (any Google Earth users), NASA World Wind is basically the same thing, only that it was around much earlier and (more importantly) it's open source software. On the down side, no expensive up-to-date imagery.

Censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Google has already demonstrated its ability to censor searches for governments. Given the current political climate I wonder if Google will be compelled to censor searches in a way that will insure NASA's version of science remains the "official science" of America.

If people can't find what you published to read it, you perish.

Google-bubble

[anubis__]

Does anyone else think that maybe we're just in a Google-bubble, much like the internet bubble of the late 90s? I mean c'mon! Yeah, they wrote a search engine and they've made enough money to create a developer utopia where their programmers can be paid to work on thier own personal projects. Yeah, they have several other products out which utilize the internet in various ways. So now NASA, a government agency, is looking to spend taxpayer dollars to team up with Google... so they can bring the Apollo mission search results when we ask for them? And perform research into fields that Google only has money to due to an excessive amount of over speculation? Give me a break.