On Episode 180 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik focus on the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA, to the dangerous dismantling of the house shuttle Discovery (as a result of Texas insists), to a rogue exoplanet’s bizarre climate, and far more.
Ought to we be nervous about China investing in SpaceX? How about these close-up pictures of the interstellar customer 3I/Atlas? And are asteroids hiding out close to Venus a risk to Earth? All this and extra…
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This Week in House covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting 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 house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, 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 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.

Answerable 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 group 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 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 benefit badge), a House Camp veteran (4 instances 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 House.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions masking metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.