Helias Doundoulakis was only eighteen when Hitler’s elite paratroopers invaded Crete in 1941. American born, he moved to Crete at the age of two. During WWII, he was a resistance fighter, evaded Gestapo’s capture, and escaped to Egypt where he joined the OSS, was trained as a spy and sent undercover to Salonica, Greece.

After the war, he became a prominent civil engineer and inventor, who holds the patent for the largest radiotelescope in the world in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

He has worked on leading designs for the Lunar Module, and his signature is included on two plaques left on the moon by Apollo 11 and Apollo 12.

He is the author of two books published in Greek.