Tiffany Montague, Technical Program Manager for NASA and Google Lunar X PRIZE, Google, Inc., speaks during a press conference, Monday, July 20, 2009, announcing the launch of Moon in Google Earth, an immersive 3D atlas of the Moon, accessible within Google Earth 5.0, Monday, July 20, 2009, at the Newseum in Washington. Photo

The New York Times profiles Tiffany Montague, a would-be astronaut who served in the U.S. Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office who now manages Google’s space initiatives. Montague parlayed her 20 percent time — Google employees are encouraged to devote 20 percent of their work time on a project of their own choosing — into a full-time job.

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