This is CBS, I on the world.

I'm John Battscher.

Behind the black, Bob Zimmerman is here.

We're looking at the FAA and investigations.

Again, however, Bob, a very good evening.

The FAA investigating SpaceX for what we saw was a disappointment of the last test when Starship broke up,

and looking at Blue Origin as well, which now successfully tested the booster, and the upper stage did not perform correctly by landing on a barge.

There is an investigation there, too.

However, this is the FAA that we've known before to make difficult for the next time and the next time.

Is it the same FAA?

Good evening to you, Bob.

John, well, first of all, the problem with Blue Origin was not the upper stage.

It was the first stage.

It was able to get back to the barge properly.

It had to be destroyed.

Yes, so the FAA has, quote, demanded mishap investigations about Starship,

the Starship problem during the seventh test flight, as well as the first stage

failure to land on the barge on Blue Origins' first launch of New Glenn. But what is really significant

about the FAA statement here is the language. It is entirely different than what it was doing during the entire

Biden administration. When the FAA demanded a mishap investigation during the Biden administration,

they didn't say, they didn't say we're demanding the company do an investigation. They said,

we are going to do an investigation and they will not permit a launch until we have completed our investigation.

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