On Episode 141 of This Week In Area, are joined by producer Anthony and our outdated pal Ant Pruitt to have fun and focus on all kinds of subjects, from first area recollections to our favourite area toys to what spaceflight means to every of us.
It is a heat “household reunion” you will not wish to miss! Be part of us for some vacation cheer, and Tariq’s “Tiny Tim” second…
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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 matter. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship individuals to Mars?
Be 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 right now 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 improvement, 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 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.
Chargeable 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 masking 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 benefit badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” journey whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.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.
