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use existing technologies that have been shown to be eff ective, thus sav-
ing valuable resources that can be used in other ways.
In a partnership described by Mark Kaufman in the Washington Post,
NASA and Google collaborated to make NASA’s vast store of images from
space missions available to the public. According to Chris C. Kemp, direc-
tor of strategic business development at NASA, “NASA has collected and
processed more information about our planet and universe than any other
entity in the history of humanity. . . . Even though this information was
collected for the benefi t of everyone, and much is in the public domain, ...