NASA Flight Engineer aboard SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy)✈️ 🔭🌚⭐️🌝 and Asst Aviation Safety Officer at Armstrong Flight Research Center https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/index.html Follow SOFIA: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N747NA https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardjgould Here to listen/learn/discuss/debate/share. “Love God. Love one another.” It’s simple. No conditions. There is no room in my heart for hate! Exclusion/oppression/aggression based on race/gender/ethnicity/nationality/religion/personal preferences is UNACCEPTABLE! 🔹AIAA | AOPA | EAA | AUVSI | STC | The Mars Society 🔹Retired US Navy ⚓️ | Flight Engineer✈️ | Aircraft Technician🛠 🔹BS in Professional Aeronautics, MS in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronatical University (ERAU) | Aeronautics | Aviation Safety 🔹FAA licensed sUAS (Drone) pilot 🔹NASA HFACS 🔹Discriminating Researcher📚 🔹Quality Assurance 🔹Technical Writer | Training & Education Material Developer | Policy & Procedures | Operations Manuals 🔹Instructor Wind Turbine Technician | OSHA ⛑| CPR | Electrical Theory⚡️& Safety 👷 | Fall Protection/Safety at Heights🗼 🔹Prior EMT 🔸 Born in Cameroon 🇨🇲Raised in 🇺🇸 🔸 Current: Mountains🗻 of SoCal 🔸 I speak some Spanish 🇪🇸🇲🇽, Japanese 🇯🇵, and German 🇩🇪 🔸 Traveled: 6 continents 32+ countries🇨🇭🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇪🇮🇹🇹🇷🇬🇷🇫🇷🇪🇸🇧🇧🇵🇷🇬🇺🇮🇸🇳🇴🇯🇵🇵🇭🇰🇪🇦🇪🇧🇭🇮🇳🇰🇷🇹🇭🇭🇰🇸🇬🇦🇨🇵🇪🇪🇨🇦🇺🇲🇭🇵🇫 ▪️ENTJ/P ▪️Fan of all things Mars 🟠 and space exploration🚀🛰 ▪️Engineer📐 | Artist 👩‍🎨 🎨 | Reader/Researcher 📖📚 | Gardener👨🏻‍🌾 | Hiker/Backpacker🥾 | Rock Climber 🧗 | Cyclist 🚴‍♂️ | SCUBA Diver 🤿 | Actor (stage/movies) 🎭 ▪️I can fix or build just about anything🛠🪛🧰⚒️🪚 ▪️Avid reader | Tsundoku habit ▪️Writer ✍️🖊📝 (stage plays, screenplays tech/safety/training articles, couple book projects) 🔷 Happiness = Reality ➖ Expectations 🔷 Be wary of extremes. The word ‘extreme’ intuitively equals ‘danger’. Our bodies deteriorate in extreme environments, so too do our minds deteriorate with extreme thoughts. 🔷 My freedom ends where yours begins. 🔷 Possibility does not equal plausibility; Plausibility does not equal viability; Viability does not equal practicality. 🔷”The challenge in life is knowing enough about something to think you’re right, but not enough to know you’re wrong.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson 🔷 Nature abhors a vacuum. But, most of the universe is a vacuum. 🔷 Confirmation bias undermines free thought. 🔷 Allegiance to person over principles should be consistently reevaluated.