Metadata -- FGDC recently adopted content standards for metadata. All Federal agencies will begin to use these standards to document newly created geospatial data as of January, 1995.
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - The Mission to Map the World
SRTM is an international project spearheaded by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and NASA whose objective is to obtain the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of the Earth.
SETI @ home The U.S. based Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, that analyzes data from the U.S.'s National Astronomy and Ionospheric Center telescope in Puerto Rico in serach of signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
