On Episode 148 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik converse with Dr. Pascal Lee about why Clavius stands out as the preferrred place to construct our first lunar base.
The very point out of Clavius, an unlimited lunar crater, brings to thoughts spectacular photos from “2001: A Area Odyssey”— touchdown spacecraft, alien monoliths, and extra. Notably, although, Clavius just isn’t on NASA’s dance card as a first-sitting consideration, however Lee thinks it must be, for a lot of causes, together with attention-grabbing lunar geology, doable websites for everlasting settlements — together with lava tubes, wonderful prospects for transportation infrastructure, and rather more.
Be a part of us for an enchanting have a look at the close to future at Clavius Base!
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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 subject. 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 Area.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to subscribe in the present day 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 area historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the Area 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 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 e-book The Proper Stuff.
Accountable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has coated area information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com crew in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He turned Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered area tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the Area Exploration advantage badge), a Area 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 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.
