On Episode 199 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has ideas on how and when robots could carry out higher — and extra safely — than people in house.
Tariq and Rod fear about how our mechanical masters would possibly take our place within the cosmos. Pascal additionally studies on his current expertise with the Nationwide Academies’ report on the human exploration of Mars. Be part of us!
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting matter. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship individuals to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You may subscribe in the present day 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 house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Approach, 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 brief 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.
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 house 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 protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He grew to become Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced house 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 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 Area.com, he served as a workers 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.
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