Jack is a consulting engineer to the semiconductor and medical equipment industries, although he has also worked in aerospace, automation/robotics and dabbled a bit in consumer products.A lifelong scince fiction fan, he founded ARA Press to publish and distribute Spaceship Handbook, but let Apogee take over for The Saucer Fleet. After Spaceship Handbook, people began to get the idea that he might know something about the subject. He's been interviewed multiple times on the Sci-Fi interview webcast "Hour 25" and on the SETI Institute's "Are We Alone" program to comment on the eve of SpaceshipOne's historic first flight.He can be reached at jhagerty@juno.com