On Friday, January 31, please try to attend this Special Presentation at Space Center Houston: The Right Deaf Stuff. It is about how a group of student at a well-known school for the deaf were recruited to help the... facebook.com/jbcharle/posts/…

Some unusual activity on the sleepy road outside a friend of a friend’s window... (thanks Eleanor Ann O'Rangers!) imgur.com/gallery/0lL49Ql

Here is something to lighten your mood today as well as change your perspective. facebook.com/story.php?story…

Technology developed by Israel has been surprisingly newsworthy in 2019. Here is a Top 10 list from the Jerusalem Post. Note especially #8: StemRad. That’s the name of the company developing the AstroRad radiation protection vest for astronauts. It is... jpost.com/

Speaking as a recovering upright bass player (in junior high and high school, I was 3rd bass—even when there were only two of us), this is an excellent demonstration of bass virtuosity. Also, in case... laughingsquid.com/double-bas…

It is always good to read about my colleagues at NASA. Here is one from 2013 but still current, about how specialists on Earth guide astronauts on ISS through clinically-acceptable... nasa.gov/exploration/humanre…

We were surprised to arrive at Vandenberg AFB at noon on Thursday and hear from Jay Prichard that there had been a rocket launch earlier in the day. Turns out it was a training launch of a ballistic missile. Ho, hum. keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-…

Today was the fifth and final day of my LA trip. Justin Walsh and I drove back from Lompoc to LAX for my flight home to Houston this evening. He suggested we visit the MJT, which had been in my original plans but is... facebook.com/jbcharle/posts/…

Yesterday was Day 4 of my week-long LA trip and Vandenberg AFB (near Lompoc-, which is pronounced "Lom-POKE") was the destination. My colleague Prof. Justin Walsh (prof., art history and archeology, Chapman... facebook.com/jbcharle/posts/…

In the afternoon of day 3 of my visit to LA, I was given a tour of the air and space center in this incredible science museum by Kenneth Phillips, Perry Roth-Johnson and Devin Waller. This was arranged by William... facebook.com/1492615023/post…

Yesterday I flew into LAX and gave my MOL presentation to the SAFSP* Alumni Association as its 2019 legacy event at the Flight Path Museum and Learning Center. It was an unforgettable opportunity to be fact-checked by... facebook.com/jbcharle/posts/…

Thanks to Jim Oswald for inviting Kathleen Kathy Talbot Charles and me to join him at Jay Leno’s performance last night at Jones Hall. Leno did nearly 2 hours of non-stop stand-up of his vintage material and new... facebook.com/1492615023/post…

At long last, the TV debut of my episode of "Lost Secrets" on the Travel Channel has been set for Sunday December 1. This is the fictionalized account of my helping the series host Justin Jampol discover a space... travelchannel.com/…/episod…/space-race-mysteries

I leave town for a few days and look what happens! Three decades ago, the West Mansion was occupied by NASA support contractor USRA. So we had meetings in there. It was impressive but showing its age even then. facebook.com/story.php?story…

Back in July I was happy to be involved in taping an episode of the new Travel Channel series “Lost Secrets” involving a certain top-secret military piloted spy satellite that was cancelled... facebook.com/story.php?story…

Here is a good opinion article on the recent world's first all-woman space walk. It was written by the two women themselves--both still in space aboard ISS.... washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Thanks to Rob Godwin for pointing out this item of space history and, even better, of space trivia. John Houbolt rightly gets credit for selling the idea of lunar orbit rendezvous to NASA in... alum.mit.edu/slice/mit-engin…