The author , a semi-retired aerospace engineer continues work at Goodrich Aerostructures R&D for the development of advanced aircraft gas turbine engine nacelles. He is married and lives with his wife in San Diego, California.

Trained as an Industrial Designer, he graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1956 taking his first job in Detroit at GM Styling - Research Studio with responsibilities for design of the Firebirds II & III. An avid amateur astronomer and telescope maker, he accepted the opportunity to transfer to the GM Defense Research Laboratories in Santa Barbara to help design the earliest lunar roving vehicles. This book features this period in his life.

Leaving General Motors he went to work for the Industrial Design firm of Sundberg-Ferar as their representative at Lockheed in Burbank on the L-1011 commercial airliner program. At the completion of the design phase he moved to San Diego to work for Rohr Industries on mass transit systems.