Google blasts off with NASA on virtual flights
By Adam Turner

Tuesday, 19 December 2006

Google Earth flyovers of the moon and Mars will be part of a NASA agreement with Google to make the space agency's wealth of information more easily available to the public.

Source: iTWire – Google blasts off with NASA on virtual flights

I first heard of Google and NASA striking a deal quite awhile ago maybe even as long ago as two years but I clearly remember Google taking on the task of organizing NASA's huge amount of data that the organization had accumulated since it's beginning. Something that the had previously been unable to accomplish. I knew then that with Google's reputation of being able to organize vast amounts of data that with time, could easily deliver nothing but good for those like you and me. I could well imagine the benefits of having all that data properly organized and searchable using Google's tried and true and mostly objective recipe.

Now the time seems to be nearly at hand. As a Google Earth user I have watched the "Earth browser" so to speak, mature into an excellent research tool and all around just plain fun piece of software and now it seems it's going to become all that much better.

Can't say as I can complain too much (but I'm sure someone will).

Here's to the Internet and it's virtual world thereof and all who partake in it. It's only getting better with age say I!