NASA’s legendary flight director Gene Kranz entitled his memoir Failure is Not an Option, referring to his days in mission control from the Mercury missions through the Apollo program. That mindset helped Kranz and teams of engineers at...
Because failure is an option SpaceX can do stuff like land rockets on a boat
Wayward boat gets blamed after SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 rocket liftoff at last second
A wayward boat and a load of liquid oxygen that got too warm...
Amazon to compete with Fedex, UPS and Alibaba with secret ‘Dragon Boat’ plan, Bloomberg says
Despite Amazon’s dismissal of the speculation that the company plans to open its own global shipping operation and compete with UPS and Fedex, Bloomberg says it has seen documents that show the Web retailer plans to do exactly that. Bloomberg says Amazon has a...
App of the Week: You Must Build A Boat, and fight some monsters, in this RPG match-3 game
I’ve never actually played Candy Crush, but I’ve gained a basic understanding of what makes it so popular by watching over people’s shoulders on public transit. I can see the appeal of cascading bursts of color as tiles fall into place...