Google guys fork over pocket change to land at NASA airfield
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Google's co-founders will pay NASA $1.3 million annually for the right to land their jumbo jet at the space agency's airfield near Mountain View, Calif.
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Google will pay as much as $25 million to the first private company that lands a robotic rover on the moon and sends a gigabyte of images to Earth, the Internet search company said yesterday.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 13--Today's discussion of the future of Crows Landing Air Facility will begin with a coin flip. That's incredibly appropriate.
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Google Inc. launched an initiative yesterday to help non profit groups use maps and satellite images to raise awareness, recruit volunteers, and encourage donations.
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InfoWorld - Google will pay up to $30 million in prize money to anyone able to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, because &quot;it&#39;s cool,&quot; the company said on its blog.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The founders of Google Inc. did it their way, and then they paid the price. Sergey Brin, 30, and Larry Page, 31, completed an initial public offering of the largest Internet search firm yesterday using an unorthodox Dutch auction ...
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The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space were handed a &#36;10 million check Saturday, a prize designed to encourage technology that will open the heavens to tourists.
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The U.S. team that took the first  privately funded, manned ship into space makes a bid to capture  a $10 million prize this week -- signaling that commercial  space travel has nearly arrived.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the boyish co-founders of Google, are each to convert Â£650m of their shareholdings into hard cash. The duo, who founded Google in a
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As Google Inc. GOOG.O  nears  the end of its first quarter as a public company, industry  watchers say one of its emerging challenges is how to keep  soon-to-be wealthy workers from cashing out and moving on.
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Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will pay up to $30 million in prize money to anyone able to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, because "it's cool," the company said on its blog. "More seriously, space exploration has a remarkable history of producing technological breakthroughs," wrote Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering, on Google's blog. He cited ablative heat shields, asteroid mining, invisible braces, and the Tang orange drink as past achievements, and said the prize money could lead to further developments in robotics, new space-age materials, precision landing control technology, "and who knows what else." Teams from around the world will vie for the Google Lunar X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation. The X Prize Foundation is best known for another space competition, the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private suborbital spaceflight, won by SpaceShipOne three years ago. Google teamed up with the foundation on the lunar project. A grand prize of $20 million will go to the first team to land a privately funded spacecraft to the Moon and complete several tasks. Bonuses of up to $5 million can be earned from roaming an additional 5,000 meters on the surface of the Moon, finding and photographing man made artifacts left on the lunar surface, such as hardware from one of the Apollo missions, discovering water ice, and surviving a lunar night, a frigid affair lasting 14.5 Earth days, the foundation said. The remaining $5 million will be paid to the second place finisher in the competition. Images from the lunar landing will be available online at the Google Lunar X Prize Web site. There is a time limit to the competition. The value of the grand prize will drop to $15 million after Dec. 31, 2012, and on Dec. 31, 2014 the contest will end unless extended by Google and the X Prize Foundation.
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NASA officials have confirmed Russian reports about an âouter-space swapâ worth an estimated $60 million or more. If approved by the US government, the deal could put off a looming
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Following the disappearance of Steve Fossett, Amazon.com and Google joined forces to coordinate a âdistributed searchâ for the millionaire aviator and adventurer. Welcome to the new world of search and rescue.
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Press the "buy" button. That's a lesson I learned at a high cost _ in money and emotion _ on a recent Friday morning.  It was just after 7 a.m. when my wife and I arrived at O'Hare International Airport for our American Airlines flight to Boston to see our son graduate from college.
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Shortly before noon today, Google Inc. stock began trading under the ticker symbol GOOG on the Nasdaq stock market. -The Washington Post
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Web surfers may soon be able to  explore the canyons of Mars and experience a virtual flight  over the surface of the moon thanks to a deal announced on  Monday between Web search company Google Inc. and the  NASA Ames Research Center.