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The John Batchelor Show

#SpaceX: Fish & Wildlife wait. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0

Sarah, where's the car? It's gone. It's not gone. It's with Fixter. Since you never

0:04.4

got round to fixing it, I took care of it. Fixter? Fixter's great. They pick up your

0:08.6

car, drive it to the garage, handle the maintenance, then drive it straight back to you.

0:12.0

Sounds expensive? Don't worry. They negotiate their prices with their partner

0:14.8

garages and the car pickup service is included. So since that's all handled, how about you

0:18.8

take a look at that leaky tab or do you need me to fix that too? For easy car maintenance,

0:22.9

head to fixter.co.uk. We'll pick up your car and take care of all the rest. Fixter and

0:28.4

you'll back on track.

0:58.4

Both entertaining and alarming. The FAA and Fish and Wildlife have teamed up. This is

1:03.7

like an all-star team of regulators. What have they decided, Bob? Good evening, too.

1:07.9

Good evening, Joe. This is something I predicted in April and May of this year when right

1:14.3

after the first test, or but a launch of Super Heavy Starship, the one that didn't succeed,

1:20.7

no surprise I didn't succeed with the first attempt. It was an engineering test. But right

1:26.6

after that, SpaceX was trying to put itself back to getting a figure of what were wrong

1:31.5

and get ready for one of the launch and everyone was talking about, well, we're aiming for

1:35.6

August. I said then that no way, Jose, that even if SpaceX is ready, the federal government

1:44.2

is going to block them. Every indication shows the federal government is working here

1:48.4

to stymie SpaceX's achievement. So SpaceX announced on the first week in September

1:55.1

that it was ready to launch. It had space, Super Heavy, with Starship's fact on top of

2:00.7

the launch pad and Elon Musk tweeted that we are ready to launch. Guess what? They didn't

2:05.0

launch. They haven't launched. It's now six weeks later and they still haven't launched.

2:08.3

They've been doing a lot of other work at Boateka, having to do with various tank tests

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