On Episode 125 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik chat in regards to the subsequent 9 months in area.
It is the top of summer time, and which means it is time to return to highschool — in our case, area college! There’s loads occurring, loads developing, and a complete lot to know. What can we anticipate from SpaceX? How are the outer photo voltaic system missions continuing? What in regards to the new rocket engines for the Artemis program? What are we doing about orbital particles? Are we actually in a brand new area race with China? And far more, together with that almost all vexing of questions: what’s up with Starliner? Be a part of us for the enjoyable.
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Space covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting subject. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
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Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine. He has written 18 books on area historical past, exploration, and growth, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the Area Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and brief movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep Area 9 and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in addition to numerous sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit score was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic e book The Proper Stuff.
Chargeable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has lined area information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com staff in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He turned Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced area tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the Area Exploration benefit badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Instances overlaying metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
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