On Episode 168 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik leap into the headlines, and boy are there a whole lot of them!
Welcome to the “Survivor: NASA” version!
NASA has a brand new interim administrator: former Congress member, actuality TV star, and Fox Information commentator Sean Duffy. NASA’s price range should still be minimize by 25%, or it is likely to be elevated to greater than they’ve seen for the reason that Nineteen Sixties in adjusted {dollars}. On the similar time, NASA is beneath orders to chop as many as 2000 principally senior-level positions, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory may very well be headed for brand new administration, and can Houston be capable of seize the Smithsonian’s area shuttle as specified within the Large Lovely Invoice? Be part of us and discover out!
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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 a captivating 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 Area.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe right this moment 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 Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, 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 quick 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 ebook 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 lined area information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.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 grew to become 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 instances 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 Instances masking metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
