Piers Bizony is the author of The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA's First Space Plane, One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered, and The Art of NASA. He has written about science, aerospace, and cosmology for a wide variety of magazines in the United Kingdom and the United States. His other books include 2001: Filming the Future, The Rivers of Mars, Starman (a biography of Yuri Gagarin), and Space: 50, marking the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik.