On Episode 176 of This Week In Area, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to speak about what’s subsequent in deep area exploration.
Dr. Stern, planetary scientist and the Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, discusses what we discovered about Pluto, the prospects for a future Pluto orbiter, the information from the Kuiper Belt, and to speak about his experiences as a business suborbital astronaut. Oh, and he would possibly simply point out that he was short-listed to fly on the area shuttle!
Alan is a kind of people who simply has one journey after one other… did I point out that he dove on the Titanic? Yeah, that type of man. Be a part of us for an hour of deep area journey.
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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 a captivating 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 Area.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to subscribe in the present day 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 growth, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Approach, 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 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.
Answerable 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 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 turned 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 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 Area.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Instances protecting metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
