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In episode 130 of This Week in Space, Rod Peel and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Jim Bell about the Mars sample return program and the VIPER mission to the moon.
NASA’s planetary exploration program has run into trouble. The Mars sample return program is being canceled and the VIPER mission to the Moon has already been completed. As Dr. Jim Bell of Arizona State University tells us, both are critical precursors to human exploration of these places.
We need to know more about the Martian surface—by direct and laboratory studies of Martian rocks—and we certainly need to understand where the volatiles—another name for water and other valuable resources—are located. Mah And if you’re the US government, you’d like to do both before China – which is probably not far off.
Does it matter who gets to these things first? And especially in the United States, what role can corporations and private individuals play in the drama?
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About this week in space
This week in space covers the new space age. Every Friday we tackle an interesting topic. What will happen with the new race to the moon and other planets? When will SpaceX actually send people to Mars?
Join Space.com’s Rod Peel and Tariq Malik as they address these questions and more each week on Friday afternoons. You can subscribe to your favorite podcast today.
Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and editor Astra ad He has written 18 books on the history, exploration and development of space Space 2.0, Innovation the NASA way, Interplanetary robots, A blueprint for a Battlestar, Amazing stories of the space age, First time in a monthand Destination Mars
In his former life, Rod produced several documentaries and short films for The History Channel, Discovery Communications and Disney. He also worked on visual effects Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Battlestar Galactica reboots, as well as various TV science fiction experiments. His last television credit was with a NatGeo documentary about Tom Wolfe’s iconic book Correct content.
Responsible for Space.com’s editorial perspective, Tariq Malik has been Space.com’s editor-in-chief since 2019 and has covered space news and science for 18 years. He joined the Space.com team in 2001, first as an intern and later as a full-time spaceflight reporter covering human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night sky. He became editor of Space.com in 2009. On-air talent presented space stories on CNN, Fox News, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (yes, he earned a space exploration merit badge), a space camp veteran (4 times as a child, once as an adult), and, while reporting on zero gravity, the ultimate “vomit” ride. has done the comet. Fires Prior to joining Space.com, he served as a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering urban music and education. He holds journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and New York University.
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