A step towards a Google lunar base...

On April 1 a few years ago, Google announced that it was hiring people for part of its lunar base. Strangely this announced lunar base hasn't yet gone into operations, yet it seems that Googlers may have moved a step closer.

From Discover Magazine (which includes quite a bit more detail):

Planetary Resources, Inc. is not your average startup: its mission is to investigate and eventually mine asteroids in space!

(Guess who the investors include? Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt as well as Google co-founder Larry Page... guess I should also add Googler Ram Shiram to the list)