On Episode 199 of This Week In Area, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has ideas on how and when robots could carry out higher — and extra safely — than people in area.
Tariq and Rod fear about how our mechanical masters may take our place within the cosmos. Pascal additionally experiences on his current expertise with the Nationwide Academies’ report on the human exploration of Mars. Be part of us!
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Area covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting subject. What’s taking place 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 at present 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 area historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Approach, 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 brief 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.

Answerable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has coated area information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com group in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter overlaying human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He turned Area.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 Area Exploration advantage badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final word “vomit comet” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Instances overlaying metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.

