Charles P. Vick has more than 35 years experience in Soviet space technology and international space assessment for design and policy issues. He has served as an aerospace researcher, analyst, writer, lecturer, commentator, illustrator and consultant on Russian and Chinese space and ballistic missile systems, as well as international space technology and policy issues.

A renowned self-taught Sovietologist, he is one of a half-dozen primary Western analysts of the former Soviet republics' space launch vehicles, operations, and technologies. Today Vick has over 1,200 Soviet space volumes in his personal library in addition to many English language volumes on Soviet space technology.

Vick was the first person to publish attempted drawing reconstruction of the N1-L3 and Proton boosters which were published world-wide before original pictures became available as noted in Izvestiya and Red Star some years ago. This was published in both the British Interplanetary Society's Spaceflight Magazine and in Mr. Kenneth W. Gatland's Space Technology Encyclopedia. To his credit, Vick has had in excess of 146 copyrighted articles and illustrations of Russian space hardware published in scholarly publications. Among these were various publications done for the Congressional Research Service, Science Policy Office of the Library of Congress, and the former Office of Technology Assessment studies for the U.S. Congress.

He has conducted many government and aerospace industry briefings that have led to the creation of cooperative programs and joint ventures with Russia's aerospace industry. His work has also led to many dozens of lectures for the general public and professional conferences. He played a central role in starting the process of acquiring Russian rocket engine technology for application to U.S. launchers. Furthermore, he developed the first Western Russian Proton launch vehicle operator's manual.

Vick, who has studied, chronicled, and illustrated the Soviet space program, has concentrated his efforts on the Soviet launch vehicles and manned lunar heavy booster Nl-L3 and Proton/Zond programs experience, history, details, and lessons learned. This continues on a larger scale today. Besides completing an Associate of Applied Science degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology, he has attended many seminars to extend his historical, political, economic and technological studies of the Soviet space industry. He has continued his studies under the late Dr. Charles S. Sheldon II, formerly of the National Aeronautics and Space Council staff and later chief of CRS-SP, Prof. James T. Westwood of GWU and AFCEA, a former NIE Board member.

Prior to joining GlobalSecurity.org, Vick worked as a research analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. In addition to continuing to develop the seventh greatly enlarged Nl-L3 book-length case study, he continued to work as a consultant on the Proton launch vehicle and its commercial satellite integration issues.