{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fe67c4f5f-32e9-4c3f-b30f-aa36c00bf8be","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"The Man Who Carried Space Shuttles with Charles Justiz ","description":"Charles Justiz, Ph.D., is a pilot, risk & safety consultant, and author of the sci-fi thriller,\u00a0Specific Impulse.\u00a0He is the founder and Managing Director of JFA Inc. and formerly served as the Chief of Aviation Safety at the NASA Johnson Space Center, where he established a crew resource management program, a safety management system, and a just culture approach. All of which have become industry standards.During his 30-year-long career at NASA, Charlie has flown over 16,000 flight hours in over 100 different types of aircraft, chased Space Shuttles returning from orbit, trained every astronaut who has piloted and landed a Space Shuttle and ferried numerous Space Shuttles across the United States using a modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.\u00a0Charlie joins me today to describe how he fell in love with flying and aviation in his early teens and shares how he became a pilot after studying Aerospace Engineering at the Air Force Academy. We talk about his path to becoming a NASA test pilot, and he describes how he became involved in music and theater production later in life and how writing\u00a0Specific Impulse\u00a0opened his unexpected artistic side. Charlie also advises making mistakes in one\u2019s career and shares his thoughts on following a vision and pursuing seemingly unrelated career paths.\u201cThere is no box; you define what the boundaries are.\u201d - Charlie Justiz\u00a0This week on Kathy Sullivan Explores:\u00a0\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charlie\u2019s childhood from Havana to Miami\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Where Charlie\u2019s early love for flying and aviation came from\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The many Cuban revolutions\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charlie\u2019s experience learning about Spanish literature in high school\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charlie\u2019s road to the Air Force Academy and how he survived his freshman year\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How Charlie became an Air Force pilot\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Celestial navigation in the space age\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Flying exotic airplanes at NASA and training to ferry Space Shuttles with the 747\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Why the 747 is a pilot\u2019s dream\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charlie\u2019s work as a risk & safety consultant\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How Charlie became involved in music and theater production\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What it means to be a theater producer\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charlie\u2019s thoughts on taking seemingly unrelated career paths\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charlie\u2019s next adventure in life\u00a0Our Favorite Quotes:\u00a0\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYou may be wrong, and that\u2019s okay. I\u2019ve failed a dozen times in my career, trying to do stuff that was wrong, but it only made me smarter on the things that I did next.\u201d - Charlie Justiz\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAll knowledge is valuable and important.\u201d - Charlie Justiz\u00a0Connect with Charlie Justiz:\u00a0\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charlie Justiz on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesjustiz/)\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Book: Specific Impulse\u00a0Spaceship Not Required\u00a0I\u2019m Kathy Sullivan,","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/1dfd0129-13dd-4580-97c9-75e77f559ffc/1472142-1680641322.jpg"}