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S8 Ep838: 15/16: Bob Zimmerman explores rumors of SpaceX acquiring land in Louisiana to exit California. He also details technical delays for NASA's Artemis program and ongoing "technical issues" with Boeing's Starliner capsule.

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🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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15/16: Bob Zimmerman explores rumors of SpaceX acquiring land in Louisiana to exit California. He also details technical delays for NASA's Artemis program and ongoing "technical issues" with Boeing's Starliner capsule.
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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelor. This is Bob Zimmerman's Behind the Black Mystery Theater. Bob, there's a story about

0:24.8

Louisiana. The story includes SpaceX. I'm extremely compelled to solve this mystery. Good

0:31.1

evening to you, Bob. Good evening, John. Yes, it's a mystery. This is pure speculation, but it's based on good homework.

0:39.3

So we can play with it a little bit.

0:42.4

A real estate agent in southern Louisiana did a great deal of research about rumors that are going on in his local area that suggests that SpaceX has or is about to acquire

0:57.8

approximately 136,000 acres of land of coastal Louisiana, west of New Orleans and about in the

1:08.1

center of the state.

1:09.0

That's about, that's a 200-mile plus square patch of land.

1:14.6

It's big.

1:15.7

And he points out that compare that to Boca Chica, which has a footprint of about 100 acres.

1:22.0

This is 136,000 acres.

1:25.1

Now, he's done his research extensively, and so he thinks it looks like SpaceX is the

1:31.1

purchaser of this plot of land. The plot is owned by Exxon, and it's not going to use the land,

1:37.2

apparently, it wants to sell. And so he looked into all the research and all the rumors and all the

1:42.8

people who have been contacted,

1:48.2

and he issued this for a very detailed report about what he thinks is happening.

1:52.2

And he thinks SpaceX is considering buying this land or is buying it.

1:55.1

And it's thinking of using it for a variety of reasons. One, build data centers on this location because it wants to build data centers,

1:59.9

manufacture satellites, because remember it wants to build data centers, manufacture satellites, because

2:02.3

remember it wants to do a million satellite constellation for these data centers, build starship

2:07.9

super heavy possibly. The location is right on the intercoastal waterway. And so shipping

2:13.7

Starship Super Heavy to both Boca and to Cape Canaveral would make sense.

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