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'Moon Shot': Google teams with J.J. Abrams and XPrize for space documentary series

Posted in Online on 4th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

"Moonshot" has in recent years become synonymous with any big, ambitious, slightly crazy idea to change the world.

Google X head says blueprint for taking moonshots is failure

Posted in Business on 18th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

'The blueprint is embracing failure. Running at all the hard parts of the problem first. If you want to make a ton of progress, you have to make a ton of mistakes.'

These are some of the Google X 'moonshots' that may change the world

Posted in Business on 9th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

Not all of the dreams make it, and thats OK. For Google X, the process itself; the failure and the iteration, is a critical part of the pursuit.

Google's Planetary Ventures to lease former NASA airfield for space research

Posted in Business on 11th Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller

Google's latest "moonshot" is an apt one; it is investing in a NASA-owned airfield to expand research into space exploration and robotics.

Could the moon provide all of Earth's power?

Posted in Business on 18th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller

Shimizu Corporation has a proposition that could end the worlds energy crisis by generating all of Earths power on the moon.