The idea comes from an expandable honeycomb cushion which sotiris kellas , an engineer at the agency 's langley research centre in hampton , virginia , came up with to help absorb the impact of landing a space capsule .
What 's interesting is that in this book originally titled o lost wolfe describes his autobiographical escapades in the virginia tidewater visiting norfolk and lee hall in newport news as well as working in the construction of the " hampton flying field " now langley air force base .
According to richard langley , a gps expert at the university of new brunswick in canada , it 's theoretically possible to take control of a drone by jamming the p code and forcing a gps receiver to use the unencrypted , more easily spoofable c / a code to to get its directions from navigational satellites .