On Episode 140 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss with Dr. Dan Erwin and scholar Ryan Kraemer about novice rocketry.
Many people flew mannequin rockets as younger individuals, however USC Rocket Propulsion Lab takes novice rocketry to an entire new level–in this case, 470,000 ft! Meet Erwin and Kraemer, who, together with a really proficient workforce of different undergrads, constructed and flew Aftershock II, a 14-foot, 330-pound “novice” rocket that flew out of the Nevada desert and into the document books.
It is a enjoyable episode that may depart you wishing that your college had a membership that was half this cool!
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This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting subject. 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 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 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 guide 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 lined house information and science for 18 years. He joined the House.com workforce in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter masking human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He turned House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered 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 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 employees reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions masking metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
