On Episode 135 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss with Dr. Rick Jenet of Increasing Frontiers about how the area workforce of the longer term might be educated and, maybe extra importantly, engaged.
Positioned in Brownsville, Texas, only a stone’s throw away from SpaceX’s Starbase, increasing Frontiers works with underprivileged communities to carry them into Twenty first-century space-related trades and to encourage particular person entrepreneurship. Dr. Jenet has an enchanting historical past as nicely, attending MIT as an undergraduate and incomes his PhD in astrophysics from Caltech, then progressing by means of his work at varied locations, together with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, earlier than founding Increasing Frontiers. Be a part of us!
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About This Week In House
This Week in House covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting matter. 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 House.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe immediately 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 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 brief 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 e book The Proper Stuff.
Liable for House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has lined area 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 night time sky. He grew to become House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered area 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 last word “vomit comet” journey whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of House.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions masking metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
