#SpaceX: Delayed by the FAA. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 29 July 2023
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#SpaceX: Delayed by the FAA. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/faa-no-starship-superheavy-launch-until-we-say-so/
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| 0:34.0 | This is CBS. I'm the world. I'm John Bachelors, SpaceX, Starship and Super Heavy, |
| 0:40.0 | looking to the next mission from Boca Chica. Pause. Bob Zimmerman, he keeps the website behind |
| 0:45.6 | the black. It is Happy Birthday behind the black, the 13th anniversary of Bob creating this site |
| 0:51.6 | to watch commercial space rise and big space step aside and or augment. Right now we have that |
| 1:00.7 | in between. Commercial space is ready to go. Big space has stood back and yet |
| 1:08.4 | representative of Big Space is looking very keenly at a launch date and saying not yet that would |
| 1:14.8 | be the FAA. Bob, why? What do we know about the FAA's position right now about the next launch? |
| 1:21.4 | Good evening, too. Good evening, John. I just want to once again add, we're just now ending the fourth |
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| 1:32.8 | Your readers, your listeners, I'm sorry, have been as always very, very generous and I have to thank |
| 1:37.6 | them again. All right, so we have a whole bunch of stories here having to do with the federal |
| 1:43.7 | executive branch agencies in the federal branch doing things that are exerting power over commercial |
| 1:51.7 | space and ways that sometimes are good but mostly are not. So we start with spaceship, Starship |
| 1:58.8 | Subanit, SpaceX is a re-giant reusable rocket that trying to develop that would be the most |
| 2:04.0 | viable rocket ever created. They did one test launch in April. It had issues, but that was not |
| 2:10.8 | surprising because it was a test launch. They never launched it before. They did not expect it to |
| 2:15.4 | go perfectly and it didn't go perfectly. There were issues. Well, the FAA is treating this launch |
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