On Episode 201 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Jay Gallentine to speak about former Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) supervisor John Casani.
When most individuals take into consideration deep house exploration, administration acumen is mostly not the very first thing they decide on — however with out it, no robotic mission would ever succeed. Jay, an writer of a number of books on the robotic exploration of house, with every being a deep dive into a subject that few discover in such element.
His latest e-book, “Born to Discover,” began off as a e-book about robots exploring Mars, however his interviews with Casani had been so compelling that he reworked it right into a biography. Casani is a legend at JPL and NASA, and his story reads like a mix of a spaceflight journey, private memoir, and a pirate’s story. You may love the e-book, and you may love listening to about it from Jay. Be part of us!
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This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into a captivating subject. What’s occurring 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 sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe at present 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 house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, 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 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 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.
Answerable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has coated 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 overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He turned 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” journey 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 training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
