On Episode 109 of This Week In House, Rod and Tariq discuss with Chris Carberry, CEO of Discover Mars, concerning the lengthy historical past of music influencing how we take into consideration spaceflight.
From the scores of early silent movies to the fashionable classics everyone knows, like 2001: A House Odyssey and the endless franchises of Star Trek and Star Wars, we frequently have a riff going by way of our minds once we see an area picture — few can hear Strauss’ Blue Danube with out pondering of the house station in 2001, or see a tilted yellow title scroll with out listening to that first orchestral crash of John Williams’ immortal Star Wars rating.
And, in actual life, we had the proficient astronaut Chris Hadfield performing David Bowie’s basic hit Main Tom, augmented by upbeat lyrics. House music is massive, and Chris Carberry, creator of the lately launched guide The Music of House, is right here to inform us why!
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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 growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Superb Tales of the House 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 House 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.
Answerable for House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has coated house information and science for 18 years. He joined the House.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 House.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 House Exploration benefit badge), a House 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 House.com, he served as a workers 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.
