On Episode 106 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq take you on a tour of the best area locations on Earth.
Most you may go to; some are extra problematic, however many are must-sees for we, the True Believers! They are going to inform you the place they’re, what’s there to see, and — the place potential — get inside with out getting arrested.
Rod and Tariq additionally do a photo voltaic eclipse recap from our diversified — and considerably irritating — experiences earlier this week.
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Area information of the week
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Space covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into a captivating subject. 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 sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can 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 area historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, 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 quick 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 ebook The Proper Stuff.
Liable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has coated area 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 area 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 instances 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 employees reporter for The Los Angeles Instances overlaying metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
