On Episode 220 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Viking 1’s touchdown on Mars.
This week, we cowl how Starship Flight 13 lastly prepares to launch amid a authorized battle over SpaceX’s proposed land swap at Starbase, plus a Chinese language Lengthy March 3B rocket will get struck by lightning throughout liftoff, but nonetheless delivers its satellite tv for pc safely.
Then, we revisit the Viking 1 mission’s groundbreaking life-detection experiments and the decades-long controversy over what they really discovered. The dialog traces Mars exploration from the earliest Mariner flybys by Viking’s ambiguous, still-debated outcomes — later defined by perchlorates within the Martian soil — and the fierce scientific rivalry the findings sparked. Be a part of us!
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This Week in Space covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting subject. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
Be a part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from House.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to subscribe right now 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 area historical past, exploration, and growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the House 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 House 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.
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 night time sky. He turned House.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 House Exploration advantage badge), a House 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 House.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Instances masking metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
