Uber hires NASA veteran to help it figure out flying cars

Mark Moore, a 30-year veteran of NASA, has left the aeronautics agency for a seemingly more terrestrial business: ride-hailing giant Uber. But Moore won't be working on anything as boring as expanding Uber's ground operation. According to Bloomberg, he will be working on the company's nascent on-demand aviation service, also known as Uber's flying car project. To be sure, Moore won't be building a flying car for Uber -- at least not yet. Last October, the company released a white paper that envi...