On Episode 181 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Alma Okpalefe, World House Week Affiliation’s govt director, to debate the worldwide celebration of all issues area, bringing collectively 1000’s of contributors from all around the planet to have a good time our future in area.
Chartered by the United Nations in 1999, this yr’s theme is “Residing in House.” The numerous related occasions from the world over are a reminder to the entire significance of area in our lives and our future, and a clarion name to worldwide youth of the worth of their future involvement. We spoke with the Okpalefe, who defined their origins, actions, and plans for the long run. It is one of many premier space-related occasions of the yr, and once you’re carried out with the episode, you may wish to know 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 House.com as they deal with 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 improvement, 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 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.
Chargeable 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 masking human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He grew to become House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced area tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the House Exploration benefit badge), a House Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final 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 masking metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
