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Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n On Episode 189 of This Week In Space<\/a>, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with their favorite Newspace Buccaneer, Jeffrey Manber.<\/p>\n When so many people were touting their private spaceflight dreams in the 1980s, Manber took the next enormous stride and actually made it happen. He formed the Office of Space Commerce within the US Department of Commerce at the invitation of the Reagan administration, forged the first commercial relations with the then-Soviet Union, bridged that into the post-USSR period, and was responsible for the first commercial spaceflight to the then-mothballed Soviet-era Mir space station with a crew that stayed there for 70 days.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He then went on to develop a variety of commercial space enterprises, from the first commercial platform to release smallsats from the ISS to initiating the Bishop airlock that became part of the space station. He also started Nanoracks, the first privately developed and standardized satellite deployment mechanism to fly. Finally, he initiated Starlab, the private space station currently under development by Voyager Technologies and a consortium of aerospace companies.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Join us for this very special episode with one of the key founders of NewSpace!<\/p>\n Download or subscribe to this show at: https:\/\/twit.tv\/shows\/this-week-in-space<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https:\/\/twit.tv\/clubtwit<\/a><\/p>\n Space news of the weekModel Falcon 9!<\/p>\n Finally, did you know you can launch your own SpaceX rocket? Model rocket maker Estes’ stunning scale model of a Falcon 9 rocket<\/a> that you can pick up now. The launchable model is a detailed recreation of the Falcon 9 and retails for $149.99. You can save 10% by using the code IN-COLLECTSPACE at checkout<\/a>, courtesy of our partners collectSPACE.com.<\/p>\n About This Week In Space<\/p>\n This Week in Space<\/a> 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?<\/p>\n Join Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Space.com<\/a> as they tackle those questions and more each week on Friday afternoons. You can subscribe today on your favorite podcatcher.<\/p>\n This Week In Space co-host Social Links Navigation<\/p>\n <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Space.com Editor-in-Chief<\/p>\n Responsible 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 soon 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.<\/p>\n Tariq is an Eagle Scout (yes, he earned the Space Exploration merit badge), a Space Camp veteran (4 times as a kid, once as an adult), and has taken the ultimate “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 New York University.<\/p>\n![\"Tariq](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/LV56aHQLyDH5FxvXQbQr5D.jpg\")
This Week In Space co-hostTariq Malik<\/p>\n