On Episode 168 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik bounce into the headlines, and boy are there a variety of them!
Welcome to the “Survivor: NASA” version!
NASA has a brand new interim administrator: former Congress member, actuality TV star, and Fox Information commentator Sean Duffy. NASA’s finances should still be minimize by 25%, or it is perhaps elevated to greater than they’ve seen for the reason that Nineteen Sixties in adjusted {dollars}. On the identical time, NASA is beneath orders to chop as many as 2000 principally senior-level positions, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory could possibly be headed for brand spanking new administration, and can Houston have the ability to seize the Smithsonian’s house shuttle as specified within the Large Lovely Invoice? Be a part of us and discover out!
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About This Week In House
This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting 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 Space.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to 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 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 guide The Proper Stuff.
Accountable 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 crew in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter protecting 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 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” 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 protecting metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.