On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O’Brien, Director of the Universities House Analysis Affiliation’s Middle for House Nuclear Analysis, for an enchanting deep dive into nuclear propulsion know-how for area exploration.
They talk about the historical past, present developments, and future potential of nuclear electrical and nuclear thermal propulsion methods, which may revolutionize our skill to discover Mars and past — each robotically and with human crews.
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This Week in Space covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting matter. What’s occurring with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from House.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to 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 area historical past, exploration, and growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Superb 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 ebook 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 coated area 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 overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He grew to become House.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 House Exploration advantage badge), a House Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final 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 Instances overlaying metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
