This Week in Space (Audio)

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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 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 ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes posted every Friday.

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This Week in Space (Audio)

Episodes (10)

Feb 20th A Dragonfly on Titan - Inside the Dragonfly Mission
Feb 13th Inside UNOOSA - The UN and Space
Feb 6th Becoming Martian! - How Will Human Beings Evolve on Mars?

This Week in Space (Audio)

Feb 20, 2026
57¼ minutes
53 MB

One of the most exciting missions to ever journey to the outer solar system has the be the Dragonfly multi-rotor helicopter that will head to Saturn's moon Titan in 2028. The car-sized probe will arrive at that strange, frozen world in 2034, descending into the soupy, smoggy atmosphere and then taking flight before it even touches the ground! We spoke with the mission's Principal Investigator, Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle, about the mission's origins, current progress, and what to expect in the coming years. She also took us through a narrated tour of the surface of Titan, with its hydrocarbon sand dunes...

This Week in Space (Audio)

A Dragonfly on Titan - Inside the Dragonfly Mission

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