On Episode 181 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Alma Okpalefe, World House Week Affiliation’s government director, to debate the worldwide celebration of all issues house, bringing collectively 1000’s of individuals from all around the planet to rejoice our future in house.
Chartered by the United Nations in 1999, this yr’s theme is “Dwelling in House.” The various related occasions from the world over are a reminder to the entire significance of house in our lives and our future, and a clarion name to worldwide youth of the worth of their future involvement. We spoke with the Okpalefe, who defined their origins, actions, and plans for the longer term. It is one of many premier space-related occasions of the yr, and if you’re executed with the episode, you may need to know extra!
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This Week in House covers the brand new house 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 individuals 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 improvement, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Approach, 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 ebook 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 evening 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 final word “vomit comet” experience 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 protecting metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
