Anthony Young

Background

About Anthony Young

I hold a graduate degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. From 1975 to 1981 I worked for various industrial design offices in southeast Connecticut. Moving to Florida in 1981 I worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies in the commercial, aerospace and defense sectors in Florida and Texas designing electro-mechanical components and assemblies using AutoCAD and currently Pro/Engineer. I also designed electronic equipment cabinet installations and worked on aircraft interior modifications and aircraft seating. I spent a year working at Jet Aviation in Basel, Switzerland designing and supervising installation of interior furnishings, bulkheads, potable water supply lines and other needed requirements. I have also designed test fixtures for Motorola two-way radios. My current area of design engineering is in aerospace and defense program areas. I am also the author of 12 books covering automotive and Apollo-era histories. The two most recent are: The Saturn V F-1 Engine: Powering Apollo Into History, and: Lunar and Planetary Rovers: The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars. Both these books were published by Springer/Praxis. In June of 2015, Springer will publish my next book, The Twenty-First Century Commercial Space Imperative. Specialties: Electro-mechanical design and component packaging using Pro/Engineer. Published author of automotive and Apollo-era histories.