This Week in Space (Video)

Nov 15 2024 10 ep. 71 mins 66
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The new space age is upon us, and This Week in Space leaves no topic untouched. Every Friday, join Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine, Rod Pyle and Managing Editor of Space.com, Tariq Malik as they explore everything related to the cosmos. New episodes posted every Friday.

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TWiS 137: Strange New Worlds - Kepler's Legacy With Dr. Jason Steffen

Nov 15 2024 79 mins  
Kepler's Legacy With Dr. Jason Steffen Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guest: Dr. Jason Steffen For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space/episodes/137

TWiS 136: SpaceX Ascendant - Can Anyone Compete?

Nov 08 2024 62 mins  
At this point, can anyone compete with SpaceX? Love him or hate him, Elon Musk and his cadre of very talented employees and partners have built the most remarkable launch service in history, increasing the US launch rate from a handful to over 100 per year in less than a decade. Eric Berger--Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of "Liftoff" and "Reentry," two books about

TWiS 135: The Spacer Pipeline - Preparing for Careers in Space

Nov 01 2024 65 mins  
On this episode, we take a look at how the space workforce of the future will be educated and, perhaps more importantly, engaged with Dr. Rick Jenet of Expanding Frontiers. Located in Brownsville, Texas, just a stone's throw away from SpaceX's Starbase, expanding Frontiers works with underprivileged communities to bring them into 21st-century space-related trades and to encourage i

TWiS 134: The Spruce Space Shuttle - Ben Dickow and the Columbia Memorial Space Center

Oct 25 2024 69 mins  
Many of us have visited the various displays of space shuttles around the US, and it's always a spectacular sight. The shuttle orbiter was huge, and seeing in any configuration is inspirational. Notably, the California Science Center is completing a display of the Endeavor in a launch configuration, which is unique among shuttle installations. But the very first shuttle mockup ever

TWiS 133: Red Moon Rising - Artemis, Commercial Space, and the China Challenge

Oct 18 2024 73 mins  
This week, we're taking a broad look at the progress of America's Artemis lunar landing program, space science in general, and the challenges to Western space plans posed by a fast-rising Chinese space program. Joining us is the uniquely qualified Dr. Greg Autry--the Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy at the University of Central Florida, visiting Professor

TWiS 132: Living in Martian Mushrooms - Growing Fungal Space Habitats

Oct 11 2024 73 mins  
This week, we're diving deep into some really clever and cutting-edge tech for Martian habitats... made from fungus! Dr. Lynn Rothschild of the NASA Ames Research Center has been working for years on how mushroom mycelia might be utilized as a habitat-building resource. It's quite fascinating--the organic material can be used to make bricks, to create shaped structures, and even to

TWiS 131: The Star Wars vs. Star Trek Food Fight - Vulcan Launches, Voyager 2 Powers Down, the Sun Powers Up

Oct 04 2024 84 mins  
It's a question that rivals the meaning of life itself: which is better, Star Trek or Star Wars? Of course, they are very different, and that's really the core of it--one is a sweeping fantasy adventure incorporating the "Hero's Journey," while the other is a science fantasy wrapped around a morality play. In the end, we love them both. But there is a bit of cultural (and perhaps g

TWiS 130: Dogs on Mars, Snakes on the Moon - Mars Sample Return and VIPER

Sep 27 2024 69 mins  
NASA's planetary exploration program is in trouble. The Mars Sample Return program is verging on cancellation, and the VIPER mission to the moon already has been. Both are critical precursors to human exploration of these places, as Dr. Jim Bell of Arizona State University will tell us. We need to know more about the surface of Mars--with direct, in-the-lab studies of Mars rocks--a

TWiS 129: Back From Mars! - Dr. Pascal Lee Returns to Discuss Recent Work at His Mars Simulation Base in the Arctic

Sep 20 2024 63 mins  
Devon Island, a polar desert in the High Arctic, is one of the most convincing Mars analogs on Earth. That's why Pascal Lee built his NASA-affiliated research base there. On this episode he returns to discuss his summer field work, Martian volcanoes, and to discuss possible alternatives to NASA's plans for the Artemis lunar base.There's a lot to know, and he brings deep passion—a

TWiS 128: Starliner is Back! What Now? - Can Boeing Compete with SpaceX's Dragons?

Sep 13 2024 71 mins  
Starliner is back and, by all accounts, could have returned with its crew had it been necessary. However, with NASA's "safety forward" approach prevailing, the spacecraft landed uncrewed on September 6, three months after it docked with the International Space Station. Now, the work begins to try to solve the problems- largely software changes, dealing with balky thrusters, and hel