Google and NASA formed a partnership to conduct research and development in areas like data management, distributed computing, and technologies to encourage private space industry growth. The goal of the joint venture between the web search giant and space agency is to bring more information to people and harness new technologies to boost NASA's space program. Eric Schmidt said Google and NASA share a desire to share knowledge worldwide.

2. Joint Venture: Google and NASA

3. Joint Venture
• Joint venture is best defined as when 2
businesses share a goal and join together
to pursue that goal.
• A company can choose to merge together
with another in order to exploit other
markets, or they can ‘join’ together to
pursue a common goal.

4. Web search firm Google has formed
a partnership with US
space agency Nasa in an effort to
harness new technology which could
boost the space programme.

5. "Google and Nasa share a
common desire"
-Eric Schmidt, Google

6. • "Google and Nasa share a common
desire, to bring a universe of information
to people around the world," said Eric
Schmidt, Google's chairman and chief
executive.

7. • On Sept. 28, 2005, two high-tech
powerhouses in California's Silicon
Valley, Google and NASA's Ames
Research Center, joined forces to
conduct cutting-edge research and
development.
NASA and Google signed a
memorandum of understanding that
outlines plans for cooperation on a
variety of areas, including large-
scale data management, massively
distributed computing, bio-info-nano
convergence, and encouragement of
the entrepreneurial space industry.
"Our planned partnership presents
an enormous range of potential
benefits to the space program," said
NASA Ames Center Director G.
Scott Hubbard. "

8. Google Earth