The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA

About Nirmala Nataraj

Nirmala Nataraj is a New Yorkbased writer and editor with a background in science writing-particularly cosmology ecology and molecular biology-and a focus on the visual and performing arts. She is the author of Earth + Space. Bill Nye the Science Guy is a science educator television host actor writer scientist and former mechanical engineer. He is the CEO of the Planetary Society an organisation that sponsors and supports space technologies and advocates for space learning and space exploration. Nye is the host of Bill Nye Saves the World a talk show that will premiere on Netflix in Spring 2017. NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) established in 1958 is the U.S. government's agency of scientific research technological development and exploration in space. NASA is responsible for unique scientific and technological achievements in human space flight aeronautics and space science that have had widespread impacts on the world.