On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk about the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the dangerous dismantling of the area shuttle Discovery (as a result of Texas insists), to a rogue exoplanet’s bizarre climate, and rather more.
Ought to we be anxious about China investing in SpaceX? How about these close-up photographs of the interstellar customer 3I/Atlas? And are asteroids hiding out close to Venus a menace to Earth? All this and extra…
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About This Week In Space
This Week in Space covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting subject. 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 immediately 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, Superb 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 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.
Answerable 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 staff in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening 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 benefit badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last 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 overlaying metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
