Charles Justiz specializes in risk management for innovative process development, aviation safety, and corporate safety culture. As former Chief of Aviation Safety for NASA Johnson Space Center, Justiz established a crew resource management program and a safety management system and promoted a just culture approach, all of which have now become industry standards.Justiz has over 22,000 flight hours in over 100 different aircraft, spent a tour of duty as a U.S. Air Force Instructor Pilot, and a tour of flight test duty. Justiz flew as a research pilot with NASA for thirty years, including as Instructor Pilot and Examiner Pilot in the Astronaut T-38. He taught astronauts to land the Space Shuttle as an instructor in the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA). He has performed over 15,000 Shuttle approaches in the STA and over 40,000 parabolas as NASA's zero-g aircraft Captain. He was a Captain and Instructor Pilot in the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), ferrying numerous Space Shuttles. Justiz led the team that developed the onboard landing simulator for Space Shuttle pilots to use while in orbit.Justiz lives in Houston, Palm Springs, and New York City with his wife, actor, and writer Dayna Steele. He is the author of the sci-fi thriller, Specific Impulse.