On Episode 107 of This Week In Area, Rod and Tariq discuss with journalist Leonard David about NASA’s troubled Mars pattern return mission.
The robotic program has its roots within the Sixties, when NASA began eager about sending robots to fetch Mars soil even earlier than Mariner 4’s first flyby of the planet. The Russians contemplated it as nicely, because the Chinese language and Japanese are as we speak. The issue? It is actually exhausting, with a number of spacecraft, presumably on totally different launches, rendezvousing across the Crimson Planet to perform.
After which there are the issues concerning the security of returning doable pathogens to Earth. However the showstopper, as traditional, is value — and NASA’s not glad. We invited the unique Area Ace reporter, Leonard David, to hitch the dialogue.
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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 part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You may subscribe as we speak 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 house historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, 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 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.
Accountable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has lined 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 benefit badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final word “vomit comet” journey 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.
