On Episode 145 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik meet the authors of a brand new e book about spaceflight known as “Star Bound: A Beginner’s Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and The whole lot in Between,” Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III.
Associated: ‘Star Certain’ serves up a ‘snarky method to house historical past’ and the American house program (unique)
Emily began the favored Fb group House Hipsters, now 66,000 members robust, and Bruce is a retired lawyer and house fanatic who additionally occurs to be the son of Bruce McCandless II, the NASA astronaut who flew on the shuttle and pioneered using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
We will cowl a variety of territory on this one, so take your hand off the eject lever and strap in!
Additionally this week: Trump needs astronauts on Mars, Earth’s quasi-moon the goddess of hinges? And we lastly know what a meteorite affect on a entrance porch seems like.
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This Week in Space covers the brand new house 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 individuals to Mars?
Be a part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from House.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 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 House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Approach, 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.
Chargeable for House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has coated house 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 evening sky. He grew to become House.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 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” 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 schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
