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Charles
Justiz is a pilot, corporate aviation safety consultant and
the author of Specific
Impulse. A graduate of the United States Air Force
Academy and a former officer of the United States Air Force,
Justiz spent tours of duty as an instructor pilot at Webb
Air Force Base as well as doing flight test at Eglin Air Force
Base. Retired from NASA as of June 1, 2010, he was rated as
both an instructor pilot and an examiner pilot in the Astronaut
T-38, the Shuttle Training Aircraft (with more than 25 years
of experience and 15,000+ Shuttle approaches), the C-9 and
in the 747 Shuttle Carrier.
Overall, Justiz has logged in excess of 15,000 flight hours
in more than 100 different types of aircraft, including NASA’s
weightless training aircraft affectionately known as the “Vomit
Comet” and the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Dr. Justiz developed the Crew Resource Management program
for NASA aviators and pushed to get it adopted, was the program
manager for developing an on-board landing simulation system
for Space Shuttle pilots to use while on orbit and has been
the Chief of Aviation Safety for NASA.
This highly experienced aviator is the author of 20 technical
papers on in-flight simulation, as well as 30 technical papers
on ionized plasma flows around charged spacecraft. Justiz
is also a former instructor for the University of Colorado,
where he taught several graduate courses in astrodynamics
and spacecraft mission design. Currently, he holds an adjunct
associate professorship at the University of Houston in aerospace
engineering.
A first generation Cuban-American, Justiz holds a doctorate
degree from the University of Houston for his research in
Thermo Physics and Plasma Dynamics and is a NASA Doctoral
Fellow. He lives in Seabrook, Texas, with his wife, Dayna
Steele, author of
Rock to the Top: What I Learned about Success from the
World’s Greatest Rock Stars, three sons and
a faithful Labrador.
His first novel and the first in a trilogy, Specific
Impulse, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books
are sold. The book is a science based thriller that has been
compared favorably to the works of Michael Crichton and Robin
Cook. Follow @charlesjustiz
on Twitter for updates and become a fan on Facebook.
See his LinkedIn
profile for more information on his company, JFA Corporate
Aviation Safety Consulting.
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