Rod Pyle has written widely on space and the inner workings of NASA and has written several books including Curiosity: An Inside Account of the Mars Rover Mission and Missions to the Moon. He works on outreach programmes for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. He is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and space.com, as well as other media outlets. He has produced numerous documentaries for The History Channel and Discovery Communications.

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• Man and Moon Vengeance Takes Flight Sleeping Under a Red Moon Aiming for the Moon How to go to the Moon Soviet Disasters A Most Complex Machine The Flight of the Phoenix Into the Void Christmas in Space Flying to the Moon Dress Rehearsals Preparing for the Big One The Voyage of Apollo 11 'Contact Light!' Magnificent Desolation Laughs From Luna: Apollo 12 A Successful Failure: Apollo 13 Shepard Returns The Lunar Rover The Genesis Rock Landing in the Lunar Highlands Final Moments: Apollo 17 The Legacy of Apollo Europe Returns to Space Asia Ascendant Moonbase.