On this episode of This Week in Space, Rod Pyle looks at some special space anniversaries, emphasizing Apollo 16.

The Hubble Space Telescope and Pioneer 11 were the first explorations of the frigid realm of Jupiter and Saturn.

The name of the ultimate space celebration is subject to change.

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Rod Pyle

Space author and historian

Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and editor-in-chief of Ad Astra. He has written 18 books on space history, exploration, and development.

Rod produced a lot of films for The History Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Battlestar Galactica, as well as various sci-fi TV pilots. He received his most recent TV credit for the Natgeo documentary on Tom Wolfe.

This Week In Space co-host

Tariq Malik

Space.com Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief of Space.com since the beginning of the year, he has covered space news and science for 18 years. He joined the Space.com team in 2001 as an intern and later became a full-time spaceflight reporter. He became Space.com's managing editor in 2009. Space stories have been presented on CNN, Fox News, NPR and others.

He is an Eagle Scout, a Space Camp veteran, and has taken the ultimate comet ride while reporting on zero-gravity fires. He was a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times, covering city and education beats. He has degrees in journalism from the University of Southern California and New York University.