U.S./Russian Aerospace Consultancies
James E. Oberg
Rt 2 Box 350, Dickinson, TX 77539
FAX or phone: 281-337-2838
private voice line: 281-534-4900
Specialties:
* Manned Spaceflight Operations
* Accident/Incident Investigation
* Technology Transfer Vulnerabilities/Opportunities
* Hazard and threat assessment to/from Russian aerospace projects
* Space Hardware and Facilities Assessment
* Russian military/civil aerospace operations, historical research
* Problems of high-tech complex systems control center
operations and decision-making
* Knowledge-capture, lessons-learned documentation
Recent consultees include:
* US Space Command, Colorado Springs
* US Air Force Academy
* US Congress, House Science Committee
* ABC News, Exclusive Consultant and Commentator
* AT&T Bell Labs (Whippany, NJ)
* HBO TV (Tom Hanks Productions)
* Science Applications International Corporation (New York City)
* NASA -- (Johnson Space Center, Headquarters, Marshall Spaceflight Center, Dryden Flight Research Center, and JPL)
* National Air and Space Museum
* Kansas Cosmosphere Museum
* TRW Corporation (Redondo Beach)
* Hamilton Standard
* McDonnell Douglas Space Station Office (Washington, DC)
* RAND Corporation
* Sotheby's of New York
* Teledyne Brown Engineering
* U.S. Library of Congress Federal Research Division
* National Science Foundation
* Association of Space Explorers
* Lunar and Planetary Science Institute
* United Nations Outer Space Affairs Division
* British Interplanetary Society
* International Space Hall of Fame (Alamogordo)
* Space Commerce Corporation
* Boston Museum of Science
Author of
--- ten books including Red Star in Orbit (Random House), Pioneering Space (McGraw-Hill), Mission to Mars (New American Library), New Earths (Stackpole), Uncovering Soviet Disasters (Random House), Space Power Theory (US Space Command), and Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the US/Russian Space Alliance.
--- World Book, Britannica (yearbook), Grolier, and Academic American encyclopedia articles on space exploration.
--- more than 1000 popular magazine and newspaper articles on space activities around the world (in Astronautics & Aeronautics, OMNI, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Science Digest, Der Spiegel, Newton (Japan), Air and Space, Christian Science Monitor, Spaceflight, Skeptical Inquirer, Sky and Telescope, Space News, etc),
Personal:
Born Nov. 7,1944, New York, NY.
Married 1969, two sons (b. 1977, 1984).
Education:
B.A.-- math (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Ohio Wesleyan , 1966,
departmental honors in math (orbital rendezvous), honors in Russian
M.S. Applied Math (Astrodynamics), Northwestern University, 1969
(NASA Graduate Traineeship, fees plus stipend, 1966-9)
M.S. Computing Sciences, University of New Mexico, 1972.
Military Service:
Distinguished Military Graduate, AFROTC, 1966;
Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, 1970-2;
DoD Computer Institute, Washington, DC, 1972-5, instructor;
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, 1975-8, on loan to NASA.
Professional Societies:
Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society
Founding Fellow, "Committee for the Scientific Investigation
of Claims of the Paranormal"
Russian Academy of Cosmonautics
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(Distinguished Lecturer; former Chapter Counselor)
Oberg is a skilled linguist with a conversant knowledge of Russian, French and Latin, plus some familiarity with German, Swedish, Spanish, Kazaki, and Japanese.