Google Plans Expansion On NASA Grounds

NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, will host Google CEO Eric Schmidt for a 7:30 pm ET news conference. They say a secret is something you tell one other person So I'm telling you, child. -- U2, The Fly We can probably rule out the space elevator being announced at today's press get-together. Google and NASA do have something to say about the Ames Research Center, a NASA press release says: NASA Ames Research Center, located in Silicon Valley, and Mountain View-based Google Inc., will make a major announcement during a news conference scheduled at 4:30 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005. NASA Ames Research Center Director G. Scott Hubbard and Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc., will make the announcement. If it's not the space elevator, it will probably be an investment by Google in some vacant land at the NASA facility. The San Francisco Chronicle David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business. Email him