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In episode 211 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Monolith Space’s Jacob Scoccimerra.
When one thinks about the diet of astronauts destined for Mars, oysters don’t usually come to mind… but they should. It turns out that the brave bivalves have a lot to offer space travelers, including water filtration and an immediate source of protein.
Scoccimerra, formerly of Nanoracks, began a research project with students at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, to design, build and operate a closed-loop automated support environment for oysters in a simulated space analog. It’s a fascinating discussion that may leave you hungry.
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About this week in space
Join Space.com’s Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik as they tackle those questions and more each week on Friday afternoons. You can subscribe to your favorite podcatcher today.
Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and editor-in-chief of advertisement-astra magazine. He has written 18 books on space history, exploration and development, including Space 2.0, NASA-style innovation, Interplanetary robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Amazing stories from the space age, first on the moonand Destination Mars
In a previous life, Rod produced numerous documentaries and short films for The History Channel, Discovery Communications and Disney. He also worked on visual effects on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the Galactic Battlestar reboot, as well as several sci-fi television pilots. His most recent television credit was with the NatGeo documentary about Tom Wolfe’s iconic book. The right thing.
Tariq Malik, responsible for Space.com’s editorial vision, has been 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 editor-in-chief of Space.com in 2009. As an on-air talent, he 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 veteran of Space Camp (four times as a child, once as an adult), and has last taken a “voke comet” trip while reporting on zero-gravity fires. Before joining Space.com, he served as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering city and education issues. He has journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and New York University.
