On this episode of This Week in Space (opens in new tab), Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik meet with Tom Jennings, the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning producer of a well-liked Nationwide Geographic documentary about Apollo 11.
When the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11 rolled round in 2019, we have been awash in documentaries, books, and extra. Among the finest documentaries was Nationwide Geographic’s “Apollo: Missions to the Moon (opens in new tab),” produced by Tom Jennings.
Be part of us for a dialog with Jennings in regards to the challenges of discovering really distinctive, unseen supplies to make a must-see documentary!
Additionally, this week: NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirms that China’s Zhurong rover has been stationary for months, the James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist, and a photograph of China’s spy balloon taken from a U-2 reconnaissance plane is completely bonkers.
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This Week in Space (opens in new tab) covers the brand new space age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting subject. What’s occurring with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship individuals to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Space.com (opens in new tab) as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to subscribe at this time in your favourite podcatcher.
Rod Pyle (opens in new tab) is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine (opens in new tab). He has written 18 books (opens in new tab) on space historical past, exploration, and growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, 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 brief 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 e book 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 lined space 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 masking human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He grew to become House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced space 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 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 training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
