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NASA: JERED ISAACMAN CONFIRMATION HEARINGS TO START. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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NASA: JERED ISAACMAN CONFIRMATION HEARINGS TO START. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
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0:00.0

This is CBS, I On the World. I'm John Batson. Behind the Black. Bob Zimmerman is here.

0:10.1

Behind the Black has lots of positive news, but we begin with a special attention to a mission called Fram 2. That's right. F-R-A-M-2. Bob, what is it? I don't think we've

0:25.4

ever talked about such a thing. Oh, we have. Of course we have, John. This is the commercial

0:29.5

private person, mission flown on jargon's resilience capsule into a polar orbit.

0:36.9

Ah, the polar orbit.

0:38.2

I didn't get the name at the time.

0:39.5

And it's named Fram 2 in honor of Fram, the ship that Nansen sailed through the Arctic

0:47.0

regions near the end of the 19th century.

0:50.9

So it's called Fram 2.

0:52.5

Well, this mission was launched late Sunday early this week, March 30th.

0:58.2

It was up for about five days, and today it's flashed down safely in the Pacific off the coast of

1:04.8

California, and the astronauts are back on the private citizens, are back on the ground ground having completed about four days in space.

1:14.3

They, you know, there was an interesting mission.

1:17.1

What we know happened is, for one, they had the first day they all had space sickness issues, nausea, vomiting.

1:24.4

This is not unusual.

1:26.4

There were no experienced astronauts on board.

1:28.3

They were all workies.

1:29.5

So they probably made it a little harder because there was nobody there to kind of guide them.

1:34.0

But they managed.

1:35.1

And then they opened up their nose cones with a big windows.

1:39.1

They could look down at the Arctic and the North Pole, take pictures, videos.

1:43.9

And they were supposedly doing science, but this is really, you know, tourists.

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