On Episode 101 of This Week In Space, Tariq and House.com’s Brett Tingley talk about the latest reviews and delve into the historical past of the militarization of house by Russia, China, and the USA.
Russia is constructing a secret nuclear-powered house weapon, however what does that imply for the remainder of us? Tariq and Brett delve into the historical past of nuclear weapons and reactors in house, in addition to the prevailing worldwide treaties governing weapons of mass destruction in orbit.
Additionally they cowl the week’s high headlines, together with SpaceX’s upcoming Starship orbital launch try and NASA’s persevering with struggles to revive the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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About This Week In House
This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting 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 sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to subscribe at the moment 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 improvement, 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 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 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 House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has lined house information and science for 18 years. He joined the House.com workforce 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 grew to become House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered house 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 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final word “vomit comet” journey whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of House.com, he served as a employees 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.
