Bob Zimmerman discusses a brilliant concept by European engineers: "tumbleweed" rovers. These swarm vehicles would roll across Mars, blown by the wind, acting as weather stations.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:02.0 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. |
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| 0:30.5 | This is CBS and the world. I'm John Batchel. Behind the black, Barbara Zimmerman is here. |
| 0:41.1 | We're going to NASA. There's a new class in the school. It's a future class at present to be trained to do what, Bob? Who are these people? |
| 0:47.6 | Well, this is NASA last week introduced. It's a new class of astronauts, two new, 10 new astronauts as part of its astronaut program, its man's program. What was interesting about |
| 0:52.7 | these astronauts, John, is at least one of them does not need to be |
| 0:56.5 | trained as an astronaut. |
| 0:58.0 | That is Anna Menon, former SpaceX employee, she flew on one of Jared Isaacsman's commercial |
| 1:06.7 | flights. |
| 1:07.4 | In fact, she did a spacewalk on his second flight. |
| 1:10.0 | She actually did get into a suit and go out in space. So she did a spacewalk on his second flight. She actually did get into |
| 1:11.3 | suit and go out in space. So she's a experience of an astronaut, but she applied and won |
| 1:16.6 | and was accepted by NASA of this class of 10 astronauts for future NASA missions. |
| 1:23.0 | And NASA wants to send astronauts, of course, on its various Artemis missions to the moon |
| 1:27.4 | and beyond. It wants to send astronauts up to the, on its various automous missions to the moon and beyond. |
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