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The John Batchelor Show

#MARS: Helicopter Landing Zones Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

0:04.0

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

0:09.1

tropics.

0:10.1

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

0:18.0

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever

0:26.7

you listen to podcasts. This is the man's

0:34.7

This is CBS High on the world behind the black Bob's

0:37.7

experiment here. We're going to space engineering Bob's

0:41.1

Orion.

0:42.1

Orion is the manned capsule that NASA is using on its autonomous program and it's using it.

0:50.0

It's essentially an assent-to-sent capsule but they've always lied and said it's going to take astronauts beyond the earth for the first time

0:56.4

And it's not really it's basically an assent descent capsule like a dragon a very expensive overpaid one that weighs too much because they were selling it as an

1:05.0

interplanetary spaceship and so they built something that was inappropriate for its task and

1:09.6

cost too much but nonetheless that's what Orion is And Orion was sent on an unmanned mission by the

1:14.6

SLS rocket about two years ago around the moon and back to the Earth. It was a test mission.

1:20.4

It came back to Earth. They had a bunch of problems along the way, most of which you'd expect on an unmanned test mission,

1:27.0

but one or two they've not been able to solve, I'm sorry, three, two, one, they have not been able to solve.

1:31.0

The other two were more more serious but they think they

1:34.0

fix them but the uh... that is uh... it's uh... inspector general came out of a

1:38.4

technical report this week saying no i think that that not good

1:42.2

and it has to do with the number one problem which is the

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