Current Activities and Positions
- Tenured Professor at the FAMU - FSU College of Engineering.
- Co-founder and Executive Director, Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee, with shuttle/mission control/space station simulators, digital space theater/planetarium and IMAX theater.
- Member of the Board of Directors of EMS Technologies, Inc. EMS is an Atlanta-based communications company.
- Member, Editorial Review Board of the Journal of the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments.
- Distinguished Lecturer for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- He is an aerospace consultant and was technical advisor for "Virus," a movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland and for "Armageddon" starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and Liv Tyler.
- Advisor for Space Adventures, Ltd., a company offering aerospace experiences, including orbital flight.
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