On Episode 209 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Garrett Reisman and Steve Lindsey, the leaders of the brand new group Astronauts for America.
Many people grew up idolizing astronauts as the perfect of the perfect that America — and different nations — have to supply. After leaving NASA, lots of them go on to comparatively routine careers in enterprise or academia, however some keep “on mission” and proceed striving to enhance the human situation.
The 100-plus astronauts behind Astronauts for America, led by Reisman and Lindsey — a Democrat and Republican — have determined to talk out about their issues for our democracy. Because the nonprofit’s web site says, “Astronauts For America is a nonpartisan group of former NASA astronauts who’ve sworn to defend the Structure of the USA. We’re dedicated to science, evidence-based decision-making, public service, and the rule of legislation.”
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This Week in Space covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting matter. What’s occurring with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
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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 House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Superb 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 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 House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has coated area 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 night time sky. He grew to become House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered area 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” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of House.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.
