This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bashar from the surface of the planet Earth. We're

staying right here to celebrate the 13th anniversary of Behind the Black Bob Zimmerman's website

following commercial spaces success. Your subscriptions and donations are most welcome

because we're at the beginning of a transformation of outer space to private enterprise monetization

and profit. Why? Because we can see everywhere that the best the best way to get into space is

cheaper, faster, and more trustworthy than big space once upon a time. Bob begins the story

with NOAA. NOAA is the very important agency that tracks everything from the oceans to the

weather. However, it is a huge budget and now it's gotten smart about its budget. Bob, a very

good evening to you. Happy anniversary to Behind the Black at a moment in time that we can

remember the moon landing once upon a time by big space. NASA's greatest achievement. You tell

me between the 20th and 21st of July. Well, all these decades later, NASA's either out of money or

should be given the scale of its commitment to SLS and other boondoggle projects. But NOAA has

gotten smart. Well, how so, Bob? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. I'm not sure NOAA has

gotten smart. NOAA is kind of like being pushed in this direction because if it's on failures.

This is, remember, NASA, over the last decade has slowly transitioned from being the builder and

designer of rockets and spacecraft to the customer buying it from the private sector. And that's what

makes things go too because there's competition. Private ownership, which means they can sell their

products to others and make money. And so you get innovation and you get a lot more for the

bank, for the buck. NOAA has been resisting this transition to the last decade. It just doesn't

really want to do it. It's been building its own weather satellites since the 60s and it wants to

continue to do so. The problem is that NOAA can't do it. Whether satellites have over the last

three decades gotten increasingly more expensive, over budget and behind schedule, and then when they

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