On Episode 182 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Terry Hart to debate his profession from a fighter jet pilot to a NASA astronaut.
In the event you ever noticed the IMAX spectacular, “The Dream is Alive,” you have seen astronaut Hart in motion, capturing the Photo voltaic Max satellite tv for pc with the shuttle’s robotic arm. However even for those who missed that movie, he has had a captivating profession as an Air Drive pilot, NASA astronaut, senior management at Bell Labs (greater than as soon as!), and as an educational and creator of a brand new aerospace engineering program at Lehigh College. Be a part of us for an fulfilling hour with one in every of our favourite guys.
Additionally, is Jared Isaacman again as the brand new NASA Administrator? Will the Orion capsule quickly be used for non-NASA missions? And what is going on on with the layoffs on the Jet Propulsion Lab? All this and extra on This Week in House.
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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 Manner, 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 numerous 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 workforce in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter masking human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He grew to become 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 advantage 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 training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.