On Episode 176 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to speak about what’s subsequent in deep house exploration.
Dr. Stern, planetary scientist and the Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, discusses what we realized about Pluto, the prospects for a future Pluto orbiter, the information from the Kuiper Belt, and to speak about his experiences as a industrial suborbital astronaut. Oh, and he may simply point out that he was short-listed to fly on the house shuttle!
Alan is a type of those that simply has one journey after one other… did I point out that he dove on the Titanic? Yeah, that sort of man. Be a part of us for an hour of deep house journey.
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This Week in House covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into a captivating subject. What’s occurring with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
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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 improvement, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, 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 varied 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.

Chargeable 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 group in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter masking 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 advantage badge), a House Camp veteran (4 instances 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 House.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions masking metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.