26 Facts About James Oberg

James Edward Oberg was born on November 7,1944 and is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian and Chinese space programs.

James Oberg had a 22-year career as a space engineer in NASA specializing in orbital rendezvous.

James Oberg gave many explanations of UFO phenomena in the popular press.

James Oberg is a consultant in spaceflight operations and safety.

James Oberg was born in New York City on November 7,1944.

James Oberg worked in the Mission Control Center for several Space Shuttle missions from STS-1 on, specializing in orbital rendezvous techniques.

James Oberg privately published several books on the Soviet programs, and became one of the few Western specialists on Russian space history.

James Oberg has often been called to testify before the US Congress on the Russian space program.

James Oberg is a Fellow of the skeptical organization CSICOP and a consultant to its magazine Skeptical Inquirer.

James Oberg is a space consultant and on-air commentator to NBC News, Discovery Canada and the BBC.

Also in 1991, James Oberg launched a battle for official recognition of Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.

In 1999, James Oberg wrote Space Power Theory, sponsored by United States military as a part of an official campaign in changing perceptions of space warfare, specifically deployment and use of weapons in outer space, and its political implications.

James Oberg is an author of ten books in addition to several technical NASA publications.

James Oberg wrote encyclopedia articles on space exploration in the World Book Encyclopedia, Britannica yearbook, Grolier and Academic American Encyclopedia.

James Oberg was commissioned by NASA to write a rebuttal of Apollo Moon landing conspiracy theories.

James Oberg writes that Moon landing conspiracy theories are fueled by resentment of American culture by some countries.

James Oberg gives the example of Cuba, where he claims many school teachers say the landing was a fraud.

James Oberg says that belief in the conspiracy is not the fault of the hoaxists, but rather of educators and people who should provide information to the public.

NASA does not, in James Oberg's opinion, provide an adequate reaction to the theorists' claims.

James Oberg often writes about alleged UFO sightings, giving scientific explanations to seemingly extraterrestrial phenomena, or otherwise debunking them as hoaxes.

James Oberg categorized UFO sightings into one of three groups:.

James Oberg wrote several articles as a publicity campaign to remove guns from the ISS.

James Oberg suggested that it might be an invitation to a future disaster and proposed it to be put in a compartment accessible only from outside, after landing.

In 2014 James Oberg asked Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian ISS astronaut, about the pistol and she admitted the gun is removed from the list, or more precisely, it is still on the official list of kit contents, but the committee meets before every mission to review the list and vote to remove the pistol for the specific flight.

James Oberg has been married since 1969 and lives with his wife Alcestis in Dickinson, Texas.

James Oberg has a conversant knowledge of Russian, French and Latin, and has some familiarity with German, Swedish, Spanish, Kazakh and Japanese.