
On Episode 165 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with NASA astronaut Nick Hague, the primary U.S. House Pressure Guardian to launch to the Worldwide House Station in that function.
House is quickly turning into a important area for a lot of Twenty first-century residing. Banking, transport throughout the ocean and land, agriculture, and dozens of different issues we take as a right all rely upon satellites, and monitoring them to keep away from collisions.
We invited Hague to speak to us concerning the House Pressure, residing on the ISS, his scary abort on a Soyuz rocket in 2018, how the House Pressure tracks orbital objects, and way more. He is a really achieved man who makes all of it sound routine — and we suspect, for him, it’s. Be part of us for this very particular interview.
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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 may subscribe right this moment 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 growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, 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 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 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 staff in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He turned 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 occasions 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 Occasions protecting metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.