Google backs private Moon landing
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Google is backing private attempts to put a rover on the Moon with a $30m prize pot.
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The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space have received a $US10 million ($A13 million) cheque, a prize designed to encourage technology that will open the heavens to tourists.
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Internet search giant Google on Thursday offered 30 million dollars in prize money for companies to land a robot camera to roam on the moon and send back high-resolution snaps and data.
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NASA's images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive.
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LOS ANGELES - A private spacecraft is to shoot beyond Earth&#39;s atmosphere for the second time in a week today in a bid to win a US$10 million ($15 million) prize and prove that space is open for business.
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As Moon exploration  looms larger among&nbsp;the growing community of scientists and engineers from Europe, India, China,  Japan, and&nbsp;the United States, a robotic lunar village is gaining support, leading to  a permanent human presence on the Moon by 2024.
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U.S. search engine giant Google Inc. has joined a group of 16 universities and national labs that is building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
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Planet information NASA has called on the omnipresence of Google to help it manage the profluence of data it expects to splurge forth from its Moon and Mars missions.â¦
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Google Inc., the most  popular Internet search engine, raised $1.67 billion on  Wednesday in its long-awaited IPO after slashing the price and  size of an offer beset by missteps and poor market conditions.
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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.
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RENO, Nevada  - British billionaire Richard  Branson said on Wednesday he was hoping to trace Steve Fossett  through a satellite mapping service offered by Internet data  provider Google as the search for the missing U.S. adventurer  resumed.
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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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Google Founders Honored By Marconi Foundation  Google's founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who as Stanford graduate students successfully created the Google search engine, have been named the 2004 Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. The two award winners will join a select cadre of 32 of the world's ...
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Google Inc.'s stock market debut appeared to be on track for later this week after the Internet search company asked regulators to give final approval of the paperwork required for the sale.
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Blog: With that purpose in mind, space agency plans to share info with private industry.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Google Inc. and NASA A
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NASA Ames Research Center has entered into a Space Act agreement with Google, which will combine the technical expertise of the search engine giant with the space science expertise of NASA, to enable NASA's space exploration work to become accessible to everyone.