On Episode 150 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik reply your questions, reply to your feedback, and have lined up plenty of your most tummy-tickling house jokes. This one is extra enjoyable than carrying new footwear!
Be part of us as we discuss asteroid 2024YR4, the Area Launch System’s prospects, Katy Perry in house, the most recent lunar missions, the X-37B “secret shuttle,” Apollo-era flight director Gene Kranz and astronaut Buzz Aldrin, photo voltaic sails, the cage match between Elon and astronaut Andreas Morgenson, and the perfect meteor bathe of the yr!
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into a captivating matter. What’s occurring with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship individuals to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Space.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to subscribe right this moment in your favourite podcatcher.
Rod Pyle is an creator, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine. He has written 18 books on house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Superb 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 varied 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.
Liable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has lined house information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com crew in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He turned Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced house tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the Area Exploration advantage badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final word “vomit comet” experience whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions protecting metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
