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.

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

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

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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

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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

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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 Foreward by Lori Garver
2016 Blueprint for a Battlestar Sterling Books [4]
2017 Mars: Making Contact Andre Deutsch Foreward 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 Foreward by Buzz Aldrin
2019 Interplanetary Robots Prometheus Books Foreward 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

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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

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  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.