Rod Pyle

Rod Pyle
Born	(1956-09-17) September 17, 1956 (age 68)
Website
www.pylebooks.com

Rod Pyle (born September 17, 1956) is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and former television producer and educator who concentrates on subjects regarding spaceflight.

Pyle is the editor-in-chief of Ad Astra magazine, a print and digital quarterly published by the National Space Society. He is author of 20 general market nonfiction books and has co-authored four public reports for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Pyle has hosted two podcast series and is a frequent guest on national and regional radio and appears on various television shows as a space expert.

Education

Upon leaving high school, Pyle attended Pasadena City College for two years before entering the University of California at Los Angeles. He eventually received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, with an emphasis in film and television in 1994. He then received a master’s degree from Stanford University in 1995.

Career

Pyle has been the editor-in-chief of Ad Astra magazine, the quarterly print and digital publication of the National Space Society, since 2017. He has authored 20 nonfiction books, mostly on space exploration, history, and development, since 2005.

Books

Year	Title	Publisher	Notes	Reference
2003	In Their Own Words: Race Across Europe	First Person Press	Co-author
2003	In Their Own Words: The Pacific	First Person Press
2003	In Their Own Words: The Space Race	First Person Press
2007	Destination Moon	Smithsonian Press		[1]
2010	Missions to the Moon	Carlton Books	Foreword by Gene Kranz	[2]
2012	Destination Mars	Prometheus Books	Foreword by Rob Manning	[3]
2014	Curiosity	Prometheus Books
2014	Innovation the NASA Way	McGraw Hill	Foreword by Lori Garver
2016	Blueprint for a Battlestar	Sterling Books		[4]
2017	Mars: Making Contact	Andre Deutsch	Foreword by James Green
2017	Amazing Stories of the Space Age	Prometheus Books
2017	Technology Highlights 2017	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2018	Technology Highlights 2018	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2019	First on the Moon	Sterling Publishing	Foreword by Buzz Aldrin
2019	Interplanetary Robots	Prometheus Books	Foreword by James Green	[5]
2019	Heroes of the Space Age	Prometheus Books
2019	Space 2.0	BenBella Books/National Space Society	Foreword by Buzz Aldrin
2022	Technology Highlights 2021	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2024	NASA/NIAC Proceedings		(in process)
2024	A Month on Mars		(in process)

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995-1997	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	VFX Coordinator	Paramount TV
1998	The Osiris Chronicles	VFX Supervisor	Paramount TV
1993	Modern Marvels: The World’s Longest Bridge	Producer/Director	History Channel
1993	Modern Marvels: Apollo 11	Producer/Director	History Channel
1994	Modern Marvels: The Arch	Producer/Director	History Channel
2002	Battlestar Galactica	VFX Previz Producer	Paramount TV
2005	Beyond the War of the Worlds	Producer/Director	History Channel

References

1. "Destination moon : the Apollo missions in the astronauts' own words | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
2. "Missions to the moon | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
3. "Destination Mars : new explorations of the Red Planet | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
4. "Blueprint for a battlestar : serious scientific explanations behind sci-fi's greatest inventions | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
5. "Interplanetary robots : true stories of space exploration | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved February 24, 2024.