Rogers, Jon C.: - Born during WWII, he worked his way through High School as a poultry worker and a page in a public Library. After graduating he joined the Army and trained as a Radar and Nike Missile Control Repairman during the Cold War.He earned FCC 1st Class Radio/Radar and FAA Radio & Instruments Licenses and worked as an Avionics Technician for United, Pacific, and AirWest Airlines.His successful career reads like a 'who's who' of hi-tech Silicon Valley corporations. At TRW Microwave he was Product Engineer and Conditioning Lab supervisor for satellite and Space Shuttle hybrid-microwave components. He was the manufacturing engineer for Memorex Corp's flexible disc division and later joined Ford (Loral) Aerospace as Sr. Mfg. Engineer building SCS, Intelsat and GOES Satellites.At Logitech Corp. he was the project manager who released their first 3D-Mouse product, at Applied Materials PVD Division, a CES Design Engineer and a Quality Engineer for Satellite transceiver products at Stanford Telecom. Returning to Applied Materials he was given responsibility for releasing the 300mm wafer Etch product line where he also established his own successful Engineering Services Company and obtained his Systems Engineering degree at San Jose University in 2000.In co-authoring and illustrating, "The Spaceship Handbook" and "The Saucer Fleet" he became America's preeminent Spaceship Archeologist for his detailed design drawings. His sci-fi Artwork "Ad Astra Per Aspera" was awarded People's Choice at the 2011 Norwescon Sci-Fi Convention. During his career he also was a Professional Truck Driver (Construction), Manufacturer's Representative (Automotive Test Equip.), Computer tech., Hi-Fi Salesman, teacher, journalist, and more.A lifelong motorcyclist, he set the AMA 1,000cc Classic Motorcycle Land Speed Record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah in 2019.