On Episode 182 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Terry Hart to debate his profession from a fighter jet pilot to a NASA astronaut.
When you ever noticed the IMAX spectacular, “The Dream is Alive,” you’ve got seen astronaut Hart in motion, capturing the Photo voltaic Max satellite tv for pc with the shuttle’s robotic arm. However even in case you missed that movie, he has had an enchanting profession as an Air Drive pilot, NASA astronaut, senior management at Bell Labs (greater than as soon as!), and as a tutorial and creator of a brand new aerospace engineering program at Lehigh College. Be part of us for an gratifying hour with one in all our favourite guys.
Also, is Jared Isaacman back as the new NASA Administrator? Will the Orion capsule soon be used for non-NASA missions? And what’s going on with the layoffs at the Jet Propulsion Lab? All this and more on This Week in Space.
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About This Week In Space
This Week in Space covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting matter. 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 deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe at this time 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 Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, 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 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 guide The Proper Stuff.
Chargeable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has lined area information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com crew 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 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 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 Area.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions masking metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
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