[Baps] BU talk - 4/5 Tiffany Montague/ The Google Space Initiative

[Paul Withers]

*Space physics*
*Seminar Series*
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*Tiffany Montague*
*The Google Space Initiative*
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*Thursday, April 5th, 2012*
*Refreshments at 3:30pm in CAS 500*
*Talk begins at 4:00pm in CAS 502*
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This presentation will present aspects of Google's relationship with
NASA ("government space"), the Google Lunar X PRIZE ("commercial
space"). Google Moon, Google Mars, and Google Sky-Wall are all features
of the mapping program Google Earth. The Google Lunar X PRIZE is an
international competition for privately funded teams to send a robotic
rover to the moon. At $30 million, it's the largest incentive prize ever 
offered.

Tiffany Montague is an alumnus of Smith College with a major in computer 
science. She is Captain in the Air Force, with experience in high 
altitude test flights, and has been at Google since 2005.