On Episode 140 of This Week In Area, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss with Dr. Dan Erwin and scholar Ryan Kraemer about novice rocketry.
Many people flew mannequin rockets as younger individuals, however USC Rocket Propulsion Lab takes novice rocketry to a complete new level–in this case, 470,000 toes! Meet Erwin and Kraemer, who, together with a really proficient group of different undergrads, constructed and flew Aftershock II, a 14-foot, 330-pound “novice” rocket that flew out of the Nevada desert and into the file books.
It is a enjoyable episode that can go away you wishing that your college had a membership that was half this cool!
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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 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?
Be a part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they deal with 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 creator, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Advert Astra journal. He has written 18 books on area historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful 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 e book The Proper Stuff.
Liable 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 group in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He turned Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced area tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the Area Exploration advantage badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” experience whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions overlaying metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
