He earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in mechanical engineering technology from
Old Dominion University in 1970. and the
Federation of American Scientists. In 2003, he joined
GlobalSecurity.org. One of Vick's specialities are drawing reconstructions of secret space projects. In the early 1980s he was the first to publicly present his attempted drawings of the then still secret Soviet
N1 and
Proton rockets. He was also among the first to publish about Soviet Nuclear power satellites, and the potential usage of space-based radars to track submarines by their effect on surface waves. In 1993 Vick and
Apollo historian
W. David Woods started an effort to publish the diaries of
Vasily Mishin, who was the General Chief designer for the
Soviet crewed lunar program from the mid-1960s to 1974. ==References==