Charles Norton has worked at NASA for more than two decades but he’s had a connection to the agency since 1993 when he was a graduate research assistant at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Recently, he was Special Advisor for Small Satellite Missions at NASA Headquarters. He was named JPL Associate Chief Technologist in July 2020, and Acting Chief Technologist in June 2022.