2014-10-18 08:25
Microsoft and NASA FrankenlogoBoth Microsoft and NASA unquestionably have done great things and have arguably contributed to the United States and the world in significant ways. Both are oft… Read More
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2014-05-19 04:15
Oded's name on his tombstoneTwenty three years passed this month since my older brother, Oded, died of a gunshot of his own Beretta gun. A second accident (the first made a hole in a wall an… Read More
2013-08-04 03:02
Over-engineering? (Portland, OR)SpaceX is arguably the most successful private/commercial/new space company to date. After being the third country entity to develop the technology and hardwa… Read More
2013-04-22 05:17
Last weekend was a celebration of space at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. A Yuri's Night party and SpaceUp Seattle provided for both a celebration of the begi… Read More
2012-12-21 23:45
I've seen moon-walkers face to face. I shook hands and exchanged words with Buzz Aldrin, Gene Kranz and watched many others as they got a standing ovation at the Museum of Flight gala in Sep… Read More
2012-12-02 04:37
Getting ready to go underwater. Credit: Guillaume FortinComplacency... When one thinks about aircraft crash landing, be it an airplane, a helicopter or maybe a suborbital spacecraf… Read More
2012-10-22 04:55
When I moved to Seattle now almost two years ago with my family to try my luck at Jeff Bezos's bigger of his two companies (not Blue Origin), little did I know that one of the opportunities… Read More
2012-08-23 06:46
Human curiosity is now on Mars. While no human is in the flesh on the red planet, a car-sized 6-wheeled rover of human creation landed on Mars on August 5th. The humans who sent it there kne… Read More
2012-07-31 05:16
Prof. Ehud Behar (left) and me after his talk, 26 July 2012The Washington Israel Business Council (WIBC) and American Technion Society (ATS) organized an evening on July 26 consisting of a l… Read More
2012-06-18 06:59
Today is Father's Day, at least in the United States. It's a day of appreciating one's father, and in our family it is one of two days every year when I get to have breakfast in bed. It is a… Read More
2012-06-10 17:35
One week in March I got to live a bit of my space aspiration. No, I didn't go to space (I continued to ride spaceship Earth). What I did was to go through two segments of commercial astronau… Read More
2012-04-09 04:48
The place - AGSOL - Ashton Graybiel Situational Orientation Lab, at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. A group of adults in a basement have been creating rides for decades. What… Read More
2012-03-04 19:23
One of the more engaging games for the iPhone is Scribblenauts Remix. What makes it interesting compared to the plethora of games for the platform (Angry Birds, anyone?) is that in order to… Read More
2012-02-21 05:16
Don't tell me you're not pissed. I mean, WT*? 50 years ago John Glenn went to space and I can't do it yet? Oh, wait. No one can do it from US soil at the moment, there's progress for you, da… Read More
2012-01-19 05:53
In the first post about the Amazon Leadership Principles for space I listed the principles and stated their importance in the life of an Amazonian. In this post we'll look at Customer Obsess… Read More
2012-01-11 05:23
For the past year I have been working for Amazon, a company that needs little introduction (at least in the United States), whose charismatic founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, also has a less kno… Read More
2011-10-29 18:04
Holding an "end of an era".Photo: Yanir GovrinIn July, USA Today published a special edition called "End of an Era" commemorating and summarizing the space shuttle era. On the cover, Space S… Read More
2011-10-02 19:23
A little over a year ago I went camping with my family near Grand Lake, Colorado. We had everything we needed - tent, stove, air inflatable mattresses and rechargeable pump (we left the flat… Read More
2011-07-08 06:52
It's epic, it's heart wrenching, it's an end of an era, enter other cliché here: __________________________.It is, after all, the last flight of space shuttle Atlantis and the la… Read More
2011-06-26 07:51
My birthday cake (taken by my son Yotam)It's my birthday today. Nothing round or big, just a solid 38. Waking up on ones' birthday means growing up one day like any other, but becoming one y… Read More
2011-05-08 20:12
Story telling is an art. Captivating an audience by telling a story pivots on how the story is told no less than the story being told. Passover Seder ("Seder" means order in Hebrew) is a ver… Read More
2011-04-10 15:27
Everyone interested in space knows how Yuri Gagarin became an instant legend by being the first human being to go to space and orbit the Earth.Here is an interesting documentary that looks a… Read More
2011-04-04 03:45
In a few days the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic orbital flight around Earth will take place. Yuri's Night, as it has been called for a decade now will entail hundreds of pa… Read More
2011-03-02 03:35
Discovery, STS-133.Credit: NASABack in September, a little over a month before Space Shuttle Discovery was supposed to originally launch for the last time I published an informal, low-tech p… Read More
2011-02-25 04:04
Space Shuttle Discovery made its final ascent to space earlier today.As I watched it on the screen at home the experience and emotions of watching its young sister Atlantis about nine months… Read More
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