Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:09:49 GMT
NASA and Google Sign “Space Act Agreement”.
[NOTE: See update from press briefing]
Google and NASA’s Ames Research Center have signed a “Space Act Agreement“. The agreement is to formally establish a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems. Since NASA Ames research center is very close to Google Headquarters it is natural they would look to work together. I was planning to get more details on a press briefing I was invited to attend via teleconference, but the conference filled up well in advance. Here are some highlights from NASA’s Press Release:
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Google and Ames will focus on making the most useful of NASA’s information available on the Internet. Real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution 3- D maps of the moon and Mars, real-time tracking of the International Space Station and the space shuttle will be explored in the future.
