On Episode 127 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Max Haot of VAST about his firm’s first area station.
Everyone knows the ISS resides its final days and might be deorbited someday round 2030… however what’s developing subsequent? Max Haot of VAST joins us to debate his firm’s first area station, known as Haven-1, set to launch in 2025.
For a corporation simply only a few years previous, VAST has made spectacular progress towards what’s prone to be the primary personal crewed area station in historical past. Subsequent plans embody a bigger orbital habitat with synthetic gravity and way more.
It is an thrilling time in Area 2.0, and firms like VAST are main the way in which! Be part of us for this fascinating hour.
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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 enchanting matter. What’s taking place 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 Area.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe in the present day 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 area historical past, exploration, and improvement, 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 quick 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 ebook 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 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 grew to become 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 occasions 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 Occasions overlaying metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
