Carlos Ortiz Longo

Dr. Carlos Ortiz-Longo

Carlos Ortiz Longo (born August 18, 1962) is a Puerto Rican NASA Aerospace Engineer at the Johnson Space Center, and Commercial Pilot, with over 30 years expertise in Thermal Analysis, Thermal Design, Atmospheric Thermal Protection Systems, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Behavior of High Temperature Structural Ceramics, Mechanical Testing of Materials, Structural Mechanics, Astronaut Crew Health Care Systems, Project Management, and System Management. He also has 20 years experience as a General Aviation, and Commercial and Corporate pilot.

Early years

Ortiz Longo was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico where he received both his primary and secondary education. As a child his creative imagination was encouraged by both his parents. His father, Dr. Ortiz, a medical physician, was very influential in his life. He was always fascinated with his son's curiosity and encouraged him to find out how things worked even if it meant taking them apart and putting them back together again.

Joining NASA

In 1980, Ortiz Longo enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez school of engineering. During his third year, while studying mechanical engineering, he came upon an advertisement in his school stating that officials from NASA would be visiting and conducting interviews at the campus. Ortiz Longo responded to the ad and went to the interview. NASA accepted him and offered a him part-time job in the continental United States.

In 1983, he moved to United States and joined NASA as a cooperative education student. He helped train astronauts for the first Spacelab mission which was carried aloft in the Space Shuttle Columbia's payload bay during STS-9.

Further Experience

Earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 1984. Inducted to the Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi. Earned his Master of Science in Material Science and Engineering from the Cullen College of Engineering in 1993. In 1996, Ortiz Longo was part of the Astronaut Selection Program group of 123 finalists (from a pool of 2451 qualified applicants), that interviewed at the Johnson Space Center to become part of Astronaut Class 16. This year, he was also named Space Shuttle Division Chief Engineer for structures, mechanics and materials.

Earned his Doctorate Degree in Material Science and Engineering from the Cullen College of Engineering in 2000. In 2003 he began supporting the Space Station Program as System Manager for the Crew Health Care System (CHeCS).

Dr. Ortiz Longo is also a commercial pilot. He is an avid flyer of vintage and experimental aircraft, including: Boeing Stearman, North American T-6 Texan, Russian Yakovlev Yak-50 (1975) and Yakovlev Yak-52, Boeing B-17, North American B-25, Max Holste Broussard, Wilga PZL-104, North American T-28 Trojan, amongst others. He also flies corporate jets, including the Gulfstream IV, Beechcraft Hawker (British Aerospace 125), Cessna Citation V, and the Embraer Phenom 300.

Written works

Among his Professional Publications and Conference Presentations are the following:

• "Elevated Temperature Mechanical Behavior of Fibrous Ceramic Thermal Insulators," C. R. Ortiz-Longo, K. W. White, American Ceramic Society Pacific Rim Conference, Paper SVI-7-93P, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 1993.
• "Thermal Shock Behavior of Low Density Fibrous Ceramic Insulators," C. R. Ortiz-Longo, K. W. White, American Ceramic Society Pacific Rim Conference, Paper SVI-8-93P, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 1993.
• "Elevated Temperature Mechanical Characterization of an in Situ Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composite: Si3N4 whisker reinforced BAS Glass Ceramic," K. W. White, Z. Xu, C. R. Ortiz-Longo, 96th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Paper SXIP-47-94, Indianapolis, IN., April 1994.
• "Elevated-Temperature Fracture Characterization of Advanced Fibrous Ceramic Thermal Insulators," C. R. Ortiz-Longo, K. W. White, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 77[10], 2703-2711, 1994.
• "Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment Thermal-Vacuum Qualification and Acceptance Testing," S. L. Rickman, C. R. Ortiz-Longo, 6th Annual Spacecraft Thermal Control Technology Workshop, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, March, 1995.
• "Hexacelsian to Celsian Phase Transformation Mechanisms in the Barium Aluminum Silicate Glass Ceramic System,” C. R. Ortiz-Longo, F. Yu, K. W. White, Presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Paper SXV-25-95, Cincinnati, OH, April 1995.
• "Method for the Calculation of Spacecraft Umbra and Penumbra Shadow Terminator Points," C. R. Ortiz-Longo, S. L. Rickman, NASA-TP3547, April 1995.
• "The Microstructural Characterization of In-Situ Whisker Reinforced Si3N4 /BAS Composite," F. Yu, C.R. Ortiz-Longo, K.W. White, Presented at the Joint Fall Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Paper 23-BP-95F, New Orleans, LA, November 1995.
• "Microstructural Studies of In-Situ Whisker Reinforced Si3N4 /BAS Composite," F. Yu, C.R. Ortiz-Longo, K.W. White, Presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Papers SI-14-96 and SVIIP-18-96, Indianapolis, IN, April 1996.
• "An Experimental Study of the Microstructural Mechanisms Affecting the Strain-Softening Behavior of Mortar,” R Dasgupta, J.C. Hay, K.W. White, C.R. Ortiz-Longo, Presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Paper T-40-96, Indianapolis, IN, April 1996.
• "The Thermal Synthesizer System," M. Welch, C. R. Ortiz-Longo, Presented at the 7th Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS), NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, April 1996.
• "The Microstructural Characterization of In-Situ Grown Si3N4 Whisker Reinforced Barium Aluminum Silicate Ceramic Matrix Composite,” F. Yu, C. R. Ortiz-Longo, K.W. White, Accepted for publication by the Journal of Material Science, January 1997.
• "The Microstructural-Creep Behavior Relationship of Si3N4/Barium Aluminum Silicate (BAS) Ceramic Matrix Composite," C. R. Ortiz-Longo, F. Yu, N. Nagarajan, K.W. White, 99th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Paper SXVI-49a-97, Cleveland, OH, April 1997.
• "A Composite Thermal Superinsulator Incorporating Silica Aerogel," J. Wittenauer, S. Lovejoy, K. Benner and C. R. Ortiz-Longo, Presented at the 49th Pacific Coast Regional and Basic Science Division Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Paper PCSVIII-019-97, San Francisco, CA, October 1997.
• "A Model of the Creep Behavior-Microstructural Relationship of a High Temperature Fibrous Ceramic Composite Insulator,” C. R. Ortiz-Longo, K. Ravi-Chandar, K.W. White, a white paper, 1997.
• "Microstructural Studies of the Mechanisms Influencing the Strain-Softening Behavior of Mortar," R. Dasgupta, J.C. Hay, C. R. Ortiz-Longo, K.W. White, Cement and Concrete Research, 28 [10], 1429-1444, 1998.
• "Study of the Fatigue Damage Accumulation Mechanisms in Monolithic Ceramics," R. Geraghty, C. R. Ortiz-Longo, K.W. White, 101st Annual meeting of the American Ceramics Society, Indianapolis, IN, May 1999.

“Interfacial Phenomena in the Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Monolithic Ceramics”, C.R. Ortiz-Longo, R. Geragthy, L. Olasz, and K.W. White, Abstract submitted to the 51st Pacific Coast Regional Meeting (PCRM) and the ACerS Basic Science and Electronics Divisions Meeting, Bellevue, WA, Oct. 27-29, 1999

Awards

Among his many awards and recognitions are: NASA Group Achievement Award, ORS Flight Experiment, 1986, NASA Productivity Improvement Award, New TCS Blanket Inspection Method, 1989, Golden Eagle Award, TCS Inspection, 1989, NASA Productivity Improvement Award, Thermal Interactive Mission Evaluation System (TIMES-89), 1989, Silver Snoopy award, STS-40 Payload Bar Door Seal Anomaly, 1991, NASA Fellowship Program, 1992, NASA Group Achievement Award, Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment, 1995, Space Act Award, Thermal Interactive Mission Evaluation System, 1995, AR&SD Elite Team Award, Letter of Recognition from the Chief of the Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division, for support given to operational evaluation of the FGB grapple fixture, Space Act Award, Thermal Synthesizer System, TSS, 1996, Letter of Recognition from the NASA Administrator, Daniel S. Goldin, for contributions in the development of the Quantitative Risk Assessment System (QRAS) model, 1997, NASA Group Achievement Award, Space Shuttle Risk Model Team, 1998, NASA Group Achievement Award, Space Station Phase 1 Program Team, 1998, NASA Group Achievement Award, Orbiter Upgrades Definition Team, 1998, Various Outstanding Performance Ratings, and Performance Awards, 1985-1997, Chairman, Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS), International Conference, NASA JSC, 1997, and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal.

Personal

Dr. Carlos Ortiz Longo is multilingual in basic Russian, and is fluent in English and Spanish.

His brother, Carlos E. Ortiz Longo (a.k.a. C. Enrique Ortiz), also worked for NASA. He was a Space Shuttle Avionics Software Engineer at IBM, then LORAL, Johnson Space Center, Houston. Both brothers are recipients of NASA's Silver Snoopy Award, and at times, concurrently worked in the Mission Evaluation Room (MER) [8] during Space Shuttle missions at the Johnson Space Center.

His son, Andrés R. Ortiz, a Texas A&M Aerospace Engineer graduate, also works at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as an International Space Station Flight controller for the Station Power, Articulation, and Thermal Control (SPARTAN) team. His other son, Gabriel C. Ortiz is a Medical Doctor, and graduate of the University of Texas Galveston Branch UTMB. He is currenly part of the residency program in Internal Medicine at the Ochsner Health System in New Orleans.

See also

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• List of Puerto Ricans
• Puerto Rican scientists and inventors
• List of Puerto Ricans in the United States Space Program

External links

• Carlos Ortiz Longo
• About the Exercise Countermeasures Project

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