eric schmidt on nasas 50th b day

Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Global Communications and

Public Affairs

NASA turns 50 years old this year, and to help the space agency

celebrate its past and look toward its future, our CEO Eric Schmidt

spoke here in Washington last Thursday as part of the NASA 50th

Anniversary Lecture Series. Here at Google we are particularly

appreciative of NASA's work, as data and imagery gathered by the

agency helps power tools for our users like Google Earth (and Google

Moon). We also have have a long-running partnership with NASA's Ames

Research Center in Silicon Valley.

In his talk last Thursday, Eric spoke about the importance of

partnerships between NASA and the private sector, highlighted some of

the geospatial data that NASA research has yielded, and challenged

NASA to embrace open, collaborative platforms as the basis for future

innovation. Check out the full video of Eric's talk below:

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