On Episode 204 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik deliver it to you from Houston, because the Artemis 2 mission continues.
We have seen NASA undergo loads of drama this yr, and not too long ago, some exceptional adjustments have been introduced beneath the brand new administrator, Jared Isaacman. We’re taking a deep dive into what’s modified, what’s the identical, and what to anticipate.
However first: Tariq and Rod are monitoring the Artemis 2 mission, which launched flawlessly on Wednesday. It’s been a thrill since launch day, which Tariq noticed in Florida, and reveals no signal of slowing.
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting matter. What’s occurring 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 Area.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You may subscribe at the moment 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 house historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Approach, 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 brief 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.
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 house 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 house 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 last word “vomit comet” experience whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions masking metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
