This Week in Space (Audio)

Mark Clampin of NASA joins Rod Pyle and Geoffrey Notkin on This Week in Space to discuss the James Webb Space Telescope. Within a couple of weeks, the Webb telescope will be sending the first science images to NASA, probing the furthest reaches of the universe, peering further back in time than ever before. Join us for this great new adventure to the earliest look at the universe yet!

Image credit: NASA-GSFC, Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab)

Host: Rod Pyle

Co-Host: Geoffrey Notkin

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On today's This Week in Space we'll be chatting you up about the massive flood of friendly emails we've received. We'll address questions, comments... and even some observations on what we can do to further please you, our valued listeners!

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

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Rod and Tariq are back to argue across the generational divide about the best and worst space sci-fi on TV ever. Tops on the list? "For All Mankind" and (of course) "Star Trek" ride high... but the worst? Anyone ever see "Starlost"? "Lost in Space"? "Rocky Jones--Space Ranger"? Before you poke a pencil in your eye to avoid seeing more, you'd better listen to this indispensable guide to everything space on TV...

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

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Geoffrey Notkin joins us to talk about meteorites... what they are, how you can find one, how to buy one if you don't want to tramp around a desolate wilderness for weeks, and the upcoming auction of his impressive collection. Stay with us!

Image credit: Leigh Anne DelRay

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

Guest: Geoffrey Notkin

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Andrew Aldrin — yes, son of *that* Aldrin—is a newspace professional who has survived years in that rough-and-tumble industry and emerged as the Cosmic Curmudgeon. His primary question: where's the beef? Where is this promised newspace revolution, and will we even recognize it when it occurs? How do we measure it, and what's the tipping point?

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

Guest: Andrew Aldrin

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The Artemis lunar landing program is moving ahead. While the SLS works toward its test flight, SpaceX makes progress on its Lunar Starship, and after a lawsuit-riddled two years, Blue Origin and partners will bid on a secondary landing system. Also, the Mars helicopter gets quiet, and nukes in space are back!

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

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Long before the shuttles were flying, NASA's prime contractor on the space shuttle program built one called Inspiration... out of wood. This full-sized lumber shuttle survives today in Downey, California, at the Columbia Memorial Space Center, and together we will get a peek into its future as Jared Head of TMRO joins the discussion.

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

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On the night of May 15, the moon will slip into the Earth's shadow for a remarkable celestial event: a blood moon eclipse. It's not as sinister as it sounds but will be a great show late in the evening. We'll tell you all about it and how to watch it, as well as the Great Mars Quake, moon plants, and the black hole at the center of the galaxy!

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

Guest: Joe Rao

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This week we look at some of the best--and worst--space movies of all time, and some you've probably never heard of. Then, OSIRIS-Rex rides again, Russia will stay with the ISS, and Boeing's Starliner tries for the skies... again.

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

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Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, and living on the moon and Mars won't be easy. This week we talk to Pascal Lee, planetary scientist, polar adventurer and chief of the Houghton Mars Project Arctic research facility to explore how living on other worlds might be accomplished. Also, it's busy at the Kennedy Space Center, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity snaps images of Perseverance's landing gear, and a recent flyby of a massive asteroid, saying, "I'll be back!"

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

Guest: Pascal Lee

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