Charles Bourland received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri at Columbia. His doctorate was in food science and nutrition. He began work at the Johnson Space Center in 1969 with Technology Inc, later Krug International, and now part of Wyle Labs. Dr. Bourland was involved in the food and package development for Apollo, Tektite, Skylab, Food for the Elderly program, Apollo-Soyuz, Shuttle, Shuttle/Mir, International Space Station, and planetary bases where crops will be grown and processed for food. He retired from NASA in December 1999 after 30 years of developing food systems for space. He was the subsystem manager for International Space Station food in the Flight Crew Support Division at the Johnson Space Center. His responsibilities included food and package development and advanced planning for International Space Station, and Advanced Life Support involving conversion of chamber grown crops to edible food. He worked part time as a consultant to the NASA Food Technology Commercial Space Center at Iowa State University from 2000 to 2005 and taught a class entitled "Living and Working in Space" at the University of Houston Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management from 2002 to 2004 . In 2000 he received the Snoopy Award, the astronaut personal achievement award and in 2003 he was honored with a Faculty Alumni Award from the University of Missouri.In retirement, Dr Bourland lives on a farm in MO and gives space food presentations to museums, schools, and civic groups.