Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman presents the case for the retired astronaut corps drafted for commercial space transport pilots to commercial space stations. More
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Look! Next door are having something done. |
| 0:03.1 | That lap panel fencing is gorgeous, though. |
| 0:05.5 | Wait a minute. |
| 0:06.4 | Juice and handybags. |
| 0:08.1 | Said she was in landscaping she did. |
| 0:10.4 | Said she had too much on a... |
| 0:12.1 | Plate compactor? |
| 0:13.7 | I'll flatten her, the lion little... |
| 0:16.2 | Get to rally fencing from 24 pound a panel |
| 0:19.4 | and tool hired two with plate compact patches from just 51 pound a week. |
| 0:23.2 | All trade prices XVAT at 20%. |
| 0:25.9 | So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses and the Patel's. |
| 0:31.2 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman, about a man petted, a former astronaut now 70, wants to continue |
| 0:39.7 | flying. I asked Bob then, is there room in space for former astronauts, ex-astronaut? Bob's |
| 0:46.8 | answer is comprehensive and about commercial space enterprise making money, and the sky is not the |
| 0:52.7 | limit. You got Earth- Moon System and beyond out there. |
| 0:57.2 | Here's Bob Zimmerman on the ex-astronaut Corps, ready for business. More of this tonight. |
| 1:04.1 | Two or more space, commercial space stations in orbit operating, there is going to be |
| 1:09.8 | ample need for professional astronauts to fly the missions to and from. And There is going to be ample need for professional astronauts |
| 1:12.6 | to fly the missions to and from. And yes, there will be work for them, private work. |
| 1:17.6 | And as SpaceX has been demonstrating, it's making money in space with manned missions. |
| 1:23.6 | And so what does that mean? That means that the government's irrelevant and there's going to be |
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