Google Astronaut Kit
IG December 8th, 2007 - By Haochi
Google Germany created a new page called the “Mit Google nach den Sternen greifen” (translates into something like: Reach the stars with Google) which showcases Google Earth and an iGoogle tab - the “Google Astronaut Kit” - that includes various astronaut-related gadgets like UFOMaps, World Sunlight Map, and Current Moon Phase you can add to your iGoogle page.
The iGoogle tab is quite CPU-intensive that it crashed my browser (Firefox) twice.
December 11th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
“Mit Google nach den Sternen greifen” in German means something like “To reach for the stars”. Not sure if the proverb is the same in English, it means “to reach for the impossible, for the great…”