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Google The Universe

With one new service announced today, Google may have done more to promote public support for space exploration than all of NASA's PR efforts to date (TechNewsWorld - 2007: A Google Space Odyssey):

Google Earth now includes much more than just images of our planet -- its new feature Sky lets users view 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies. Sky also features several informational layers that focus on particular events and celestial bodies. For example, the Backyard Astronomy layer is designed to help amateur astronomers learn about particular areas of the night sky.

Don't forget to tour Google Moon to take a look at our next stop in the great human tour of the galaxy.

Back to Blogging

I'm emerging from the dog days of summer, with vacation time receding into the past, but not yet back up to full blogging speed. Still, I did want to note this Forbes article taking a look at The Future Of NASA. Also of note, an important bit of news regarding the hardware, NASA has awarded a contract to build the first stage rocket for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (Science Daily - NASA awards Ares first-stage contract).