Apr 9, 2009

Last week, the search engine giant known as Google launched a venture fund creatively known as Google Ventures, which the company will use to invest in startups in and outside of its main industry (example: cleantech, healthcare, bio-tech, etc.). Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch had a chance to interview both Google execs running the...

Jul 29, 2008

For those of you who daily use the search engine giant, Google has decided to join in the “festivities” by temporarily redesigning their logo in order to honor the space program. On July 29th, 1958, NASA came into being in a direct response to the USSR’s launch of Sputnik. Eleven years later NASA was able to land a...

Jul 14, 2008

Last year, FedEx launched a humerous Superbowl commercial, joking about how the company was willing to service businesses located anywhere–even on the Moon. Even though FedEx currently has no plans to service companies located off world, about 14 teams are determined to send their little robots across the lunar surface in order to...

May 20, 2008

Last year in an effort to motivate humanity to revisit the Moon, Google announced an X-Prize competition (aka GLXP) aimed at spurring the international community to land a rover on Earth’s nearest neighbor. Thus far only 10 teams have accepted Google’s challenge, with sizes ranging from one (fairly wealthy) person to a...

Apr 7, 2008

It looks as if one of the contestants in the Google Lunar X-Prize has found a unique way of securing funding in order to win the $30 million prize. (LunaTrex X-Prize Blog) Team LunaTrex has a few companies in its membership that are profitable and that also have profit-generating products that relate to aerospace. One such company,...

Apr 1, 2008

After realizing that going to the Moon was not their cup of tea, the Mountain View giant has decided to partner up with Virgin Galactic to launch the first Martian colony funded by corporate dollars instead of governmental taxes. (Google Press Release) “Some people are calling Virgle an ‘interplanetary Noah’s...

Mar 3, 2008

With almost a dozen teams competing for Google’s Lunar X-Prize, one would probably expect a team located within a major space power to dominate this international space race. While a few teams are presenting innovative ways of landing on the Moon, most have yet to figure out how to leave their home planet without going...

Oct 19, 2007

Over on the sidebar of Colony Worlds, this author ran a mini poll asking readers whether or not Google’s X-Prize was of any benefit to humanity. The poll closed four days ago with a grand total of 26 votes. Here are the results below: Question: Is Google’s Lunar X-Prize Good For Humanity? Choice 1: Yes, as it helps us reach...