America’s heading again to the Moon, however what does the general public actually suppose? On Episode 93 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod check out Artemis and Apollo with former NASA historian Roger Launius to get the story.
Dr. Roger Launius, former NASA Chief Historian and Smithsonian Curator, has studied, amongst many different issues, public perceptions of NASA and spaceflight.
Some spoilers: no, there was no “Golden Age” within the Nineteen Sixties when the general public was vastly behind the Apollo Moon landings; being an area historian is a variety of enjoyable; and it in all probability does not actually matter if China lands individuals on the Moon earlier than the US does so *once more*.
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About This Week In House
This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into a captivating subject. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship individuals to Mars?
Be a part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from House.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe at this time 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 house historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the House Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and quick movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep House 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 House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has coated house information and science for 18 years. He joined the House.com group in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He grew to become House.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 House Exploration benefit badge), a House Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final word “vomit comet” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of House.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Instances protecting metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
