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
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:24.0 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchel. Behind the black, Bob Zimmerman joins to comment on |
| 0:29.9 | Boca Chica. You will recall, this is a spot in Texas, very dear to all of us following SpaceX, |
| 0:36.2 | where there has been over the years questions about the |
| 0:39.6 | environment, about the damage done to the locations, the wildlife by Starship and its brethren. |
| 0:49.7 | However, Bob has good news, I believe. Good evening. He'll be to you, Bob. |
| 0:53.6 | Good evening, General. Well, first of all, there's never been any damage. We should make it news, I believe. Good evening. He'll be to you, Bob. Good evening, down. |
| 0:54.3 | Well, first of all, there's never been any damage. |
| 0:56.3 | We should make it very, very clear that the people raising these questions have no evidence and never had any evidence. |
| 1:03.4 | And we're just mainly doing it because they're a lot of people who like the shutdown, SpaceX, for a number of political reasons. |
| 1:10.8 | So they, shortly after, I'm sorry. So, um, who like to shut down SpaceX for a number of political reasons. |
| 1:19.6 | So they, shortly after, I'm sorry, so the SpaceX is advancing its starship super heavy test program. |
| 1:29.4 | And though Starship has not yet been landed successfully, they basically have been dumping it in the Indian Ocean after each test flight so that it doesn't, if they have problems, it doesn't fall anywhere else on Earth. |
| 1:33.1 | It's under control circumstances. |
| 1:35.3 | But they're moving closer to be wanting to be able to recover Starship, catch it with |
| 1:40.3 | tower chopsticks again. |
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