On Episode 89 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod focus on the challenges of regulating spaceflight.
With a rise in industrial and personal spaceflight comes the necessity to regulate it, and the FAA has had a serious function in newspace flight guidelines thus far… however ought to or not it’s the first regulator transferring forward? Many within the discipline say no, and a few decry most makes an attempt at what they see as pointless management. We at TWiS really feel that, like some other type of transportation, correct and wholesome regulation is needed–the query is by whom, and the way. George Nield, President of Industrial Area Applied sciences and former Affiliate Administrator for Industrial Area Aviation on the FAA, joins us to work by way of the tangle.
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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 matter. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe right now in your favourite podcatcher.
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 Method, 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.
Answerable 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 group 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 area 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 last word “vomit comet” trip 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 schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
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