On Episode 190 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look back at the past year in space — its ups, its downs, its all-arounds.
What a year it's been, and after all the challenges and hullabaloo, we're grateful in a post-Thanksgiving fashion to welcome Jared Isaacman, at last, as the new NASA Administrator. What he will do and how remains largely unknown, but we do believe he has the nation's interests at heart, and the man knows people are watching.
But there are a lot of other stories and we've done our best to stuff as many as we can into this virtual Christmas space stocking! Please join us for this year-end roundup!
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Space news of the week
- Trump signs sweeping executive order aimed at 'ensuring American space superiority'
- What time will interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS be closest to Earth today?
- A SpaceX Starlink satellite is tumbling and falling out of space after partial breakup in orbit
- space.com on X
- Tariq saw a spent Falcon 9 Booster! - X
- Stories of Space
- NASA Admin Jared Isaacman on X
- Could NASA's Mars Sample Return be saved? Lockheed Martin proposes $3 billion plan to haul home Red Planet rocks
- Did NASA's Perseverance rover actually find evidence of life on Mars? We need to haul its samples home to find out, scientists say
- Trump's signing of 'One Big Beautiful Bill' includes $85 million to move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Texas
- 25 Years on the International Space Station
- Hubble's 35th Birthday
- New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope
Model Falcon 9!
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This Week in Space covers the new space age. Every Friday we take a deep dive into a fascinating topic. What's happening with the new race to the moon and other planets? When will SpaceX really send people to Mars?
Join Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Space.com as they tackle those questions and more each week on Friday afternoons. You can subscribe today on your favorite podcatcher.
