On Episode 128 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak about what is going on on with Boeing’s Starliner CST-100 spacecraft.
Starliner is again and, by all accounts, may have returned with its crew had it been essential. Nevertheless, with NASA’s “security ahead” method prevailing, the spacecraft landed uncrewed on September 6, three months after it docked with the Worldwide House Station. Now, the work begins to attempt to resolve the problems- largely software program modifications, coping with balky thrusters, and helium leaks- in order that the Starliner Crew 1 can fly subsequent yr.
However how did we get right here? What’s NASA’s tackle the newest Starliner mission? And, maybe above all, how will Boeing method this system shifting forward? We’ll carry you the newest and greatest–and concern not, we’ve got Tariq right here to maintain us honest.
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This Week in Space covers the brand new area 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?
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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 House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, 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 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.
Accountable for House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has lined area 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 overlaying 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 area 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 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” journey whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of House.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.
