This Week in Space (Audio)
Hosted by Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik · TWiT
4.6from 226 ratings
- 134
- Episodes
- 113
- Transcribed
- 226
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 80M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Space (Audio)
The new space age is upon us, and This Week in Space leaves no topic untouched. Every Friday, join Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine, Rod Pyle and Managing Editor of Space.com, Tariq Malik as they explore everything related to the cosmos.You can join Club TWiT (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast (https://twit.memberful.com/checkout?plan=134290) ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes posted every Friday.
- Publisher
- TWiT
- Category
- science · science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
113 of 134 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiS 228: What's a HOTOL? - Britain in Space
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiS 227: TrekMania - Michael Okuda Talks LCARS, Easter Eggs, and Sci-Fi Innovation
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiS 226: Who Owns the Moon? - Capitalism and Property Rights in Space
Inside a recent episode
TWiS 228: What's a HOTOL? - Britain in Space
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's a feasibility study. Can this actually work? But what also a key part of the programme was Alan Bond's concept of an engine. and uh it's the idea of um sort of it's called the synergetic air breathing rocket engine and the idea was that it would essentially suck in air and uh cool it down uh to almost liquefy it and the oxygen in the air would be used uh in combination with hydrogen from that was stored on board the the hotel and then this would save on the amounts of propellant you needed And so this would make it possible to get to orbit with a space plane. And so they carried out this feasibility study. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on This Week in Space (Audio)
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Rob Coppinger
- Mike Okuda
- Michael Okuda
- Rainer Zitelmann
- Adam Kall
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 79,609,729
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 167 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 59 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts This Week in Space (Audio)?
Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host the show. Published by TWiT.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does This Week in Space (Audio) take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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