Google + NASA

Google and NASA announced plans Thursday for Google to build a million square feet of offices at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field.

"Google and NASA share a common desire to bring the universe of information to people around the world," said Eric Schmidt, the company's chief executive officer, in a statement. "Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it."
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In addition to supercomputing, the research and development between Google and NASA will involve biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology, the development of extremely small devices.
Google stands to gain from learning about NASA's supercomputers, which could come in handy as the Mountain View search engine compiles even bigger indexes of information and video. NASA leaders cited the benefits of getting access to Google's search expertise to pick out nuggets of information from the volumes of data streaming back from satellites and human space launches.
"NASA is nothing but drowned in information when we come back from our missions," said Scott Pace, associate administrator for NASA.

The burning question on my mind is whether they will name the new facility Google-Plex.

[Via SFGate]