On Episode 89 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss the challenges of regulating spaceflight.
With a rise in business and personal spaceflight comes the necessity to manage it, and the FAA has had a significant role in newspace flight rules so far… but should or not it’s the first regulator moving ahead? Many in the sphere say no, and a few decry most attempts at what they see as unnecessary control. We at TWiS feel that, like all other type of transportation, proper and healthy regulation is needed–the query is by whom, and the way. George Nield, President of Industrial Space Technologies and former Associate Administrator for Industrial Space Aviation on the FAA, joins us to work through the tangle.
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This Week in Space covers the brand new space age. Every Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting topic. What’s happening with the brand new race to the moon and other planets? When will SpaceX really send people to Mars?
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Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, television producer and Editor-in-Chief of magazine. He has written 18 books on space history, exploration, and development, including , , , , , , and
In a previous life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and short movies for The History Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He also worked in visual effects on and the reboot, in addition to various sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic book .
Chargeable for Space.com’s editorial vision, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Space.com 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 shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter covering human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night sky. He became Space.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air talent has presented space stories on CNN, Fox News, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (yes, he earned the Space Exploration merit badge), a Space Camp veteran (4 times as a child, once as an adult), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” ride while reporting on zero-gravity fires. Before joining Space.com, he served as a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times covering city and education beats. He has journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and Recent York University.