On Episode 138 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Scott Tibbitts, who spun $7 of ironmongery shop elements right into a 150-person, multimillion-dollar house firm making tech for NASA that allowed deep house probes, beginning with the Cassini mission to Saturn, to function within the harsh setting of the outer photo voltaic system.
Scott’s tiny actuator changed costly, failure-prone explosive squibs with a tool that may very well be examined (you may’t actually check one thing that goes *bang*), cycled, and tried once more if it did not work the primary time. And it began along with his work at a water heater firm and some dozen chilly calls that ended with one to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab.
There’s far more to this story–including some intriguing recommendation for entrepreneurs–but you may need to tune in to study extra! See you there.
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Rod Pyle is an writer, 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 Means, 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 e-book 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 protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time 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 benefit badge), a House 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 House.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.
