On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik have a look a pair of personal moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and a lot extra.
2025 is the 12 months that introduces the Nice Lunar Armada! A small fleet of personal and publicly-funded orbiters, landers, and rovers are heading off to discover Luna Incognita this 12 months, and it’ll solely pace up after that.
We additionally have a look at the current Starship Flight 7—which ended within the whole lack of the Starship higher stage—and the inaugural flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket, which flew efficiently however didn’t handle to land on the restoration ship. Plus, our traditional house dad joke and an replace on the LA fires’ impression on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and how one can assist.
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This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting matter. What’s occurring with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
Be a part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from House.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You may subscribe as we speak 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 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 brief 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.
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 group in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter masking human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He turned 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 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” experience 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 masking metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
