From 1985 to 1990, he served as Chief of the Space Shuttle Earth Observations Office.
In 2004, he joined the Planetary Science Institute as a Senior Scientist and simultaneously took on the role of Executive Director at the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling University.
[2] Wood published a series of articles about the moon in Sky and Telescope magazine.
Wood ran the popular site Lunar Photo of the Day, or LPOD,[3] from 2004 to 2018.
In 2018, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 363115 "Chuckwood" in honor of Wood's work.