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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.
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- TWiS 234: Living in Lunar Caves - Could We Live Inside the Moon? · 1 u 8 min · Aflevering 234In our ongoing quest to develop a moon base, could we possibly utilize the area beneath the surface of the moon in order to make the moon habitable? In this episode of This Week…
- TWiS 233: The Artemis Generation - The STEM Pipeline for Space · 48 min · Aflevering 233Newspace is hiring! With the major powers heading to the moon, low-Earth orbit becoming busier than ever, and countless new companies entering the space marketplace, the hiring…
- TWiS 232: The Lunar Dump - Over 800 GB of Moon Data · 1 u 10 min · Aflevering 232In this week's episode we turned to Chelsea Gohd, former writer for NASA/JPL and now with Space.com, to talk about the recent large data dump from the Artemis II mission. What…
- TWiS 231: Sailing the Stellar Seas - Our Favorite Space Sci-Fi! · 58 min · Aflevering 231From the earliest works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to the best of contemporary space science fiction, Tariq and I dive deep into our favorite space si-fi across the ages! And…
- TWiS 230: Living on Lava Worlds - Atmospheres on Lava-Covered Exoplanets · 1 u 8 min · Aflevering 230Think you're having a hot summer? Try living on 55 Cancri-e, a super-Earth with daytime temperatures above 4000 degrees Fahrenheit. Most of these super-Earths orbit frighteningly…
- TWiS 229: Is It Starship's Time? - Test Flight 14 to Orbit · 1 u 6 min · Aflevering 229This week it's Rod and Tariq working through the most important space headlines. The big story: Starship could launch test flight 14 as early as Monday the 28th. We've seen lots…
- TWiS 228: What's a HOTOL? - Britain in Space · 58 min · Aflevering 228In the 1980s, as the US space shuttle was just starting operations, the UK embarked on an ambitious project called HOTOL—short for Horizontal Take Off and Landing, a radical…
- TWiS 227: TrekMania - Michael Okuda Talks LCARS, Easter Eggs, and Sci-Fi Innovation · 1 u 9 min · Aflevering 227Hold onto your phasers, but it's been 60 years since Star Trek's debut, and the franchise is still going strong. For 40 of those years, Mike Okuda, working with a gifted team…
- TWiS 226: Who Owns the Moon? - Capitalism and Property Rights in Space · 1 u 13 min · Aflevering 226Capitalism—and a strong profit motivation—has driven enterprise for centuries. Two notable examples are the East India Company and the US transcontinental railroad, and the…
- TWiS 225: Get a Grip! - New Technologies for Orbital Salvage · 1 u 0 min · Aflevering 225The mitigation of orbital debris is an increasingly serious problem that has not gotten enough attention, but this is changing. Commercial companies are addressing orbital…
- TWiS 224: The Science of Artemis - What We'll Do on the Moon · 60 min · Aflevering 224It has been said that the Moon is a harsh mistress, and nowhere is this more apparent than at the lunar south pole. That is, however, where the Artemis program is headed, and we…
- TWiS 223: The Lunar Domain - Our Future on the Moon with Dr. Scott Pace · 1 u 5 min · Aflevering 223We're headed for a space renaissance, and it will be focused on the Moon. The US, China, and international partners of both are vying to land people there and construct a…
- TWiS 222: How to Invade Earth in 22 Easy Steps - With Rich Edwards · 1 u 8 min · Aflevering 222We've all seen the movies... the aliens come to Earth, the aliens overcome the inferior humans, and the aliens fall prey to something dumb they overlooked, like microbes, Windows…
- TWiS 221: Starship Can Float? - Roman Space Telescope Ready to Launch! · 57 min · Aflevering 221Rod Pyle is out this week, so Rick Jenet of the National Space Society joins Tariq Malik this week to talk about SpaceX's Starship Flight 13, which deployed new Starlink V3…
- TWiS 220: First on Mars - The 50th Anniversary of Viking 1 · 1 u 16 min · Aflevering 220This week, we cover how Starship Flight 13 finally prepares to launch amid a legal battle over SpaceX's proposed land swap at Starbase, plus a Chinese Long March 3B rocket gets…
- TWiS 219: SpaceX Goes to War! - And Other Space Headlines · 1 u 13 min · Aflevering 219This week we're jumping into the space headlines for the past few weeks. It's been busy, and some exciting things are happening! A couple of companies are moving into the space…
- TWiS 218: Which Way to the Moonbase? - With Dr. Pascal Lee · 1 u 10 min · Aflevering 218We've been hearing a lot about NASA's new moonbase plans, and they are ambitious. Starting with Artemis V (so far), the US plans to begin preparations for a permanent base…
- TWiS 217: America in Space - 250 Years of Bold Firsts & Our Favorite Missions! · 1 u 18 min · Aflevering 217Since 1958, the United States has been part of the spaceflight adventure, and since the mid-1960s has led in just about any category that counts. In this episode, we discuss the…
- TWiS 216: Dark Matter Intelligence - With Physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson · 1 u 10 min · Aflevering 216We've had endless conversations about aliens and first contact--but what if a conversation with other intelligences is beyond our scope? Dr. Daniel Whiteson, particle physicist…
- TWiS 215: Disclosure Day - With Dr. David Brin · 1 u 6 min · Aflevering 215If you've seen "Disclosure Day" or "Age of Disclosure," you're going to want to join us for this fascinating discussion with famed bestselling sci-fi/sci-fact author Dr. David…







