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Rod Pyle | |
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| Subject | Human spaceflight |
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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. He lives in Southern California.
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 16 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.
Early Life[edit]
Pyle was born in Pasadena, California, where he resided through the 1990s. His father, Ralph Pyle, hailed from San Diego and was a classical musician who played French Horn in the Los Angeles Philharmonic until his retirement in 1988. Pyle’s mother, Charlyne Baker, also from San Diego, was a ballerina who danced with the American Ballet Theater before following her husband to Los Angeles in 1956, where she then danced in a number of Hollywood musicals including “Carousel,” “Oklahoma,” and “Pal Joey.” In the late 1960s, his father founded a small local church, the Sadhana Society, with meetings initially held in the family home and later in a separate, dedicated headquarters. Pyle credits this period with his eventual adoption of atheism.
Through elementary school, Pyle was considered a gifted student. However, by the time Pyle entered junior high, Pasadena was in the throes of a difficult period of desegregation, which threw its school system into disarray.[1] Pyle later discovered that he had undiagnosed lifelong ADHD, which corresponded closely with his academic records and would remain a challenge until much later in life.
In 1980, after struggling with higher education for six years, he left his studies to solo travel the world, spending months in Asia, Southeast Asia, India, and Europe.
Education[edit]
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 Art Center 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[edit]
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 16 nonfiction books, mostly on space exploration, history, and development, since 2005.
Books[edit]
| Year | Title | Publisher | Notes | Reference |
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| 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 | [2] | |
| 2010 | Missions to the Moon | Carlton Books | Foreword by Gene Kranz | [3] |
| 2012 | Destination Mars | Prometheus Books | Foreword by Rob Manning | [4] |
| 2014 | Curiosity | Prometheus Books | ||
| 2014 | Innovation the NASA Way | McGraw Hill | Foreward by Lori Garver | |
| 2016 | Blueprint for a Battlestar | Sterling Books | [5] | |
| 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 | [6] |
| 2019 | Heroes of the Space Age | Prometheus Books | ||
| 2019 | Space 2.0 | BenBella Books/National Space Society | Foreword by Buzz Aldren | |
| 2022 | Technology Highlights 2021 | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | ||
| 2024 | NASA/NIAC Proceedings | (in process) | ||
| 2024 | A Month on Mars | (in process) |
Film and Television[edit]
| 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[edit]
- ^ "PASADENA CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Petitioners, v. Nancy Anne SPANGLER et al". LII / Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
- ^ "Destination moon : the Apollo missions in the astronauts' own words | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "Missions to the moon | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "Destination Mars : new explorations of the Red Planet | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "Blueprint for a battlestar : serious scientific explanations behind sci-fi's greatest inventions | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ "Interplanetary robots : true stories of space exploration | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-02-24.