After one small ceremony this week, NASA and Deloitte hope to make a giant leap in improving oil field safety.
The space agency and the consulting firm signed off on a partnership to provide advanced risk-management services to oil and gas companies.
It will focus on preventing risk scenarios that have a low probability of occurring but have devastating consequences, such as the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil well disaster or the in-flight destruction of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
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Forget space missions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches more apps than any government agency in the galaxy. While sequester cuts threaten to cramp the space agency's style in orbit and beyond, NASA's multimedia multiverse rockets ahead, expanding in May with the release of yet another new iPad app, Spinoff 2012.
From the Office of the Chief Technologist, Spinoff 2012 showcases dozens of the latest supercool space agency spinoffs — technologies developed by NASA and transferred...
