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Google Maps in collaboration with NASA is enabling people around the world to take a trip to the doorway to outer space. This location is our largest special collection of Street View imagery to date, totaling 6,000 panoramic views of the facilities, and expanding our mission to document the world’s most amazing places.Among the images you can now explore online with the click of your mouse are the space shuttle launch pad, Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Firing Room #4. Gaze down from the top of the enormous launch pad, peer up at the towering ceiling of the Vehicle Assembly Building (taller than the Statue of Liberty) and get up close to one of the space shuttle’s main engines, which is powerful enough to generate 400,000 lbs of thrust. From these vantage points, anyone can live out his or her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut.

Google Wallet is a virtual wallet that stores your credit and debit cards, offers, and rewards cards. Your Google Wallet is always with you, on your phone and on your computer, for shopping in-store and online. It adds up to more speed, savings and security. In this “popup wallet” video, opening Google Wallet, is the opening to a whole new world.

Whether you want to email a few close friends, share a photo with your circles, video chat with the whole family, or reply to Google+ posts, it’s all possible right from Gmail.

Introducing Handwrite, a fun and easy new way to search Google from your smartphone or tablet.

To enable Handwrite, visit www.google.com on your smartphone or tablet, click ‘Settings,’ found at the bottom of the page, and then enable Handwrite. This feature is currently available in 27 languages.

Learn more at g.co/handwrite.

Google makes a special announcement about Google Fiber and the next chapter of the Internet. Google Fiber is officially launching in Kansas City. Pre-register now at http://www.google.com/fiber

Whether it’s adding your favorite dog park, editing local sights and businesses or mapping your entire town, Google Map Maker makes it easy to update the places you care about on Google Maps for everyone to see.

Visit http://mapmaker.google.com

Christina Blount Presnell is knitting together a global community of yarn lovers using Google+ from her Harrisonburg, VA store.