This Week In Area podcast: Episode 152 — Atomic Rockets II: Nuclear Electrical Boogaloo
On Episode 152 of This Week In Area, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O’Brien, Director of the Universities Area Analysis Affiliation’s Heart for Area Nuclear Analysis, for an interesting deep dive into nuclear propulsion expertise for house exploration.
They focus on the historical past, present developments, and future potential of nuclear electrical and nuclear thermal propulsion techniques, which may revolutionize our potential to discover Mars and past — each robotically and with human crews.
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Area covers the brand new house 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 folks 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 at this time 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 house 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 guide The Proper Stuff.
Accountable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has coated house information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com staff 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 house 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 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final 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 schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
