On Episode 164 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk about these regarding instances for NASA with Casey Dreier, the Chief of House Coverage for The Planetary Society..
What a wild week it has been for NASA. With drastic funds cuts looming — pending any motion by Congress — then comes the sudden and sudden pulling of Jared Isaacman for the function of NASA Administrator, with no substitute named.
Then got here the very public cut up between President Trump and Elon Musk, and a flurry of livid Twitter/X and Fact Social postings, aimed toward one another with razor-sharp edges.
And eventually, the proposed and drastic cuts to NASA outreach and training budgets, slimming them to just about nothing.
These are unusual and regarding instances for America’s house company, a premier international model and icon of peaceable American prowess. We turned to Dreier, who has been fairly vocal in his concern, for context. These are essential instances for spaceflight, so you will not need to miss this episode!
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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 house historical past, exploration, and improvement, 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 brief 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 lined house information and science for 18 years. He joined the House.com workforce in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He turned House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered house tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the House Exploration advantage badge), a House Camp veteran (4 instances 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 workers reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions overlaying metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.