Topic - nasa

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Biosciences, Communications, Internet, Finance

Google, Virgin Launch Hoax Mars Settlement

Google and Virgin plan April Fool’s Day joke joint venture that promises a human habitat on Mars by 2016, which would put the search king well ahead of NASA.
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General news, Internet, Finance

Google’s Next Frontier: Space?

The search giant will sponsor a $30 million competition for an unmanned lunar landing, following up on the $10 million Ansari X Prize that spurred a private sector space race.

Previous coverage: Space 2.0: The Race to Privatize, Branson Unveils Space Ship, Plan B for Outer Space
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Internet

Google Takes On Space

Internet king brings NASA data online.
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Finance

Space 2.0: The Race to Privatize

The planet's top entrepreneurs--from Virgin's Richard Branson to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to Doom designer Richard Carmack to PayPal founder Elon Musk--are in a race to privatize space.
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Finance

Lunar Competition Heats Up

Is paperwork the final frontier after all?
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Finance

Mastering Mars (2 of 2)

Long past its original expiration date, NASA’s Mars rover is on the brink of new adventures.
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Finance

Mastering Mars

Photos: Long past its original expiration date, NASA’s Mars rover is on the brink of new adventures.
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Finance

NASA’s VC Arm Blasts Off

Red Planet Capital launches with VIP board culled from the private and public sectors.
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Finance

Plan B for Outer Space

Pressured to finish the space station, NASA gives two startups multimillion-dollar contracts to send cargo, crews to the International Space Station.
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Computers

RH Hardware Report

Red Herring magazine’s hardware news stories for the week of May 29, 2006.
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Finance

Feds Startup Spending Jumps

U.S. government IT spending sent 17 percent more to small businesses like startups in the second quarter.
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General news, Internet

Google Sells Digital Books

The search giant markets full texts of books and offers satellite maps of Mars.
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Security, Finance

NASA Explores Planet VC

The space agency looks to venture capital to stay on the cutting edge.
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Computers, Finance

Intel Plays with Extreme Light

The chip maker is adopting an expensive technology to keep pace with Moore’s Law.
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General news, Biosciences

Next-Generation Spacesuits

Advances in technology promise down-to-earth commercial applications.
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Computers, Finance

VCs Bet on Industrial Wireless

Apprion closes $7.5 million in its first round of venture investment to develop its industrial wireless integration platform.
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General news

Lab Talent: Loretta Hidalgo

The Space Activist
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Computers, Internet

Sun, Google in Software Promo

Sun Microsystems and Google will help distribute each others' software.
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Internet

Google On Board with NASA

Search engine plans to develop huge complex on space agency property as the two team on research, other initiatives.
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Finance

Q&A: Nancy Floyd

Venture capitalist Nancy Floyd plays energy ups and downs.
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