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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 36 —NASA's finally tackling UFOS
On today's This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with acclaimed author Andy Chaikin about his epic Apollo record A Man On the Moon and moon exploration.
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On today's This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with veteran space reporter Leonard David on NASA's new plan to investigate UFOs.
On this episode of This Week in Space (opens in new tab), Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Leonard David, the godfather of space reporting, about how NASA is finally looking into UFO phenomenon with a new $100,000 study that will run into mid-2023.
With a panel of 16 experts, including scientists, astronauts (and yes, at least one space reporter), NASA has been charged with using its considerable expertise in the quest to understand what exactly UFOs (now called UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomenon) might be all about.
Are they extraterrestrial visitors? Time travelers? Earthly foreign agents? Swamp gas (no, we don't buy that one either)? Join us as we dive deep into the possibility of extraterrestrial emissaries.
Also in this episode, NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket is back on the launch pad, a huge piece of Chinese space junk crashes into the Pacific, NASA's InSight Mars lander has just weeks to live and don't miss the Blood Moon total lunar eclipse of Nov. 8.