On Episode 173 of This Week In Area, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik look again on the week in area information.
We have a look at the passing of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, potential re-tasking of NASA’s Juno probe from Jupiter to the interstellar interloper, 3I/Atlas — Avi Loeb desires it, after all — the third launch of ULA’s Vulcan rocket, Artemis 2 lunar flyby updates, Virgin Galactic’s new spaceplane (can they ever make a revenue?), a proposed Pluto orbiter — with a deliberate mission of fifty years — and far more, on This Week in Area!
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Area information of the week
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Area covers the brand new area 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 individuals to Mars?
Be a part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe right now in your favourite podcatcher.

Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Advert Astra journal. He has written 18 books on area historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Superb 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 e book The Proper Stuff.

Liable 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 protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He grew to become Area.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 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” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a workers 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.