On Episode 189 of This Week In Area, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with their favourite Newspace Buccaneer, Jeffrey Manber.
He then went on to develop a wide range of business area enterprises, from the primary business platform to launch smallsats from the ISS to initiating the Bishop airlock that grew to become a part of the area station. He additionally began Nanoracks, the primary privately developed and standardized satellite tv for pc deployment mechanism to fly. Lastly, he initiated Starlab, the personal area station presently below growth by Voyager Applied sciences and a consortium of aerospace firms.
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This Week in Area covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting subject. 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 creator, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Advert Astra journal. He has written 18 books on area historical past, exploration, and growth, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Manner, 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 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 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 area information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.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 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 benefit badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” journey 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.
