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Charles Camarda serves as a distinguished engineer in residence on detail assignment to the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, affiliated with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Born in Queens, New York, he earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1974, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University in 1980, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1990, with a thesis on advanced modal methods for transient thermal and structural response. Camarda began his career at NASA's Langley Research Center as a research scientist in 1974, advancing to head the Thermal Structures Branch in 1996, where he oversaw research on high-speed aircraft and reusable launch vehicles, including test facilities like the Thermal Structures Laboratory. Selected as a NASA astronaut in 1996 as part of Group 16, he served as a backup crew member for Expedition 8 to the International Space Station and flew as a mission specialist on STS-114, the Space Shuttle Discovery's return-to-flight mission in 2005, accumulating 13 days, 21 hours, and 32 minutes in space.