On Episode 181 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Alma Okpalefe, World House Week Affiliation’s government director, to debate the worldwide celebration of all issues area, bringing collectively 1000’s of members from everywhere in the planet to rejoice our future in area.
Chartered by the United Nations in 1999, this 12 months’s theme is “Dwelling in House.” The various related occasions from internationally are a reminder to all the significance of area in our lives and our future, and a clarion name to worldwide youth of the worth of their future involvement. We spoke with the Okpalefe, who defined their origins, actions, and plans for the longer term. It is one of many premier space-related occasions of the 12 months, and while you’re accomplished with the episode, you may wish to know extra!
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This Week in House covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting matter. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship individuals to Mars?
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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 growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, 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 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 ebook 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 coated 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 evening sky. He turned 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 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 Instances masking metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.