Peter Bond is a lifelong space and astronomy enthusiast. He has written eight books, including the award-winning DK Guide to Space and has contributed to or acted as consultant/editor for many others. Bond has also written hundreds of articles on space and astronomy for British and American newspapers and magazines. He was appointed as Space Science Advisor for the Royal Astronomical Society in 1995, and is also a consultant/writer for the European Space Agency. He received a certificate for an outstanding contribution from ESA in 2005, and a Group Achievement Award from NASA in 2004. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. Bond lives in Cranleigh, Surrey, England.
