Gene Sticco

Gene Sticco is a retired U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant and former intelligence contractor who brings decades of geopolitical and technical experience to the study of advanced aerospace phenomena. As custodian and lead researcher of Engineering Infinity, he meticulously analyzed the posthumous writings of Soviet aerospace engineer Valerij Černohajev. Alongside his wife, Natalja Černohajeva-Sticco—an opera singer with a background in engineering and the daughter of Černohajev—Gene co-authored the book’s translation and commentary. Together, they have bridged languages, disciplines, and generations to bring a hidden legacy of Cold War propulsion science to light.