Bob Zimmerman reports the FAA approved SpaceX's Starship recovery at Boca Chica. Zimmerman criticized the proposed US Spaceport Act as a $10 million political slush fund that increases red tape.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:23.7 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel. Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps the website behind |
| 0:29.1 | the black. The Earth-Moon system. Right now, it's a contest between the United States and |
| 0:36.0 | the Chinese Communist Party. However, there are unknowns in the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 0:37.9 | However, there are unknowns in the United States that have reason to be doubted. |
| 0:43.4 | One of them is Blue Origin. |
| 0:44.9 | However, Bob is a Blue Origin story that sounds upbeat. |
| 0:48.7 | Blue Origins rescuing a NASA child that's been abandoned. |
| 0:52.6 | What is it, Bob? |
| 0:53.4 | What is Blue Origin rescuing? |
| 0:55.4 | All right. |
| 0:55.9 | So a few years ago, NASA tried to start building a rover, it called Viper. |
| 1:01.1 | This is to look at resources on the moon. |
| 1:02.8 | It was supposed to go to the South Pole. |
| 1:05.1 | It originally had a budget of about $250 million. |
| 1:09.3 | As is NASA has wanted to do these days, that budget ballooned to almost six, more than $250 million. As is NASA is want to do these days, that budget ballooned to almost more than 600 million, |
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