Tiziou worked first for model airplanes publications, as early as age 13 (With first
publication when 14-years old), adapting existing airplanes or conceiving gliders and even flying saucers equipped with toy rocket engines Jetex 50 and 150. Quickly, during his studies, he started working as an artist for several aviation publications, including Famous "Les Ailes," producing 3-view plans and Cutaways.
As early as the USA and USSR announced that artificial satellites would be orbited, he specialized more and more in rocket propulsion and added to his activities, photography, page layout, and text. In August 1956, he was in the Sovietic Black Sea spending his nights looking at the sky, 14 months before the launch of Sputnik 1 ... When he graduated from ESTACA (Then ETACA) in 1962 (""Caravelle" Class), he was already a professional journalist published by a couple dozens of European publications, participating to books published in England, radio and TV programs in Belgium, sci-fi publications in Italy, and releasing pictures in the whole world through the Dalmas Agency. He worked later for the Gamma agency for 15 years, then for Sygma (Now Corbis) for more than 35 years.
As soon as he graduated as an Aerospace Engineer in 1962, Tiziou went to spend a month the USA to visit NASA Centers and Industry plants at the rate of one a day.
He was able then to watch the launch of the very first active communications satellite, "Telstar" from Cape Canaveral. At the Langley Research Center, he was able to "fly" the very first lunar landing simulator. In Houston, he walked along cows in the fields where the "Manned Spacecraft Center" (Now Johnson Space Center) was going to be built. At McDonnell's in Saint Louis, he was put on board the "Gemini" 2-seater capsule a few hours before John Glenn, Scott Carpenter and Donald Slayton saw it for the first time. He was also given the plans still marked "Confidential" and "Secret" of the new machine.
Before the first human flight around the moon (Apollo 8), he had accumulated more than a year in NASA Centers and aerospace plants of the Apollo program and had installed his brother Michel (1942-1994) as his rep. of his "Space-ialists" Cape Canaveral office (A very small apartment with dying window air conditioners and a very old Volkswagen bug.)
Starting in 1965, on top of his journalistic work now mostly oriented towards the lunar program, Tiziou became the Editor in Chief of the very first Space Encyclopedia at Editions Rombaldi. It was published in 1968 in several languages including English (by Hamlin) and American (by McGraw Hill). In 1969, he published "A l'Assaut de la lune" at Stock Publishing, a book that several people said on radio or TV that it decided the orientation of their career (such as Jean-Yves le Gall, now Chairman of Arianespace).
At the end of the 60s, Tiziou was covering only the Apollo program for numerous Press organizations, including the only two French TV channels existing at the time. Free from French TV after Apollo 13, he moved himself to Cocoa Beach until the end of the Skylab program. The editors and managers having in one hand the means to starve him to death in Florida and in the other contracts to cover the White House, he moved to Washington DC. JTA (Jacques Tiziou Associates) became JTNS (Jacques Tiziou News Service), covering all kinds of domains but Aerospace remaining a specialty and a priority.
Since the Space program will never end, Jacques intends to follow it as long as possible. Mostly for the pleasure! He goes to KSC at least once a year and was there in November 2012 for the Apollo 17 40th anniversary gathering.