SPACEX;MAKING OXYGEN. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.9 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you |
| 0:13.8 | to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:21.2 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:23.5 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:26.3 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:32.9 | This is CBSI and the world. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm John Batchel. Happy birthday behind the black. 15 years of very carefully watching the development of commercial space. And we begin, thanks to your donations and subscriptions, with the commercial space decision awaiting the decision by the president to put someone in charge of NASA, which is |
| 0:57.4 | big space, but it is important to note the footnote here. NASA began the commercial space |
| 1:04.5 | enterprise success by investing in SpaceX once upon a time. Bob, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:12.7 | The commercial space is prospering, |
| 1:20.2 | and now it has a temporary head of NASA. Who is he? Good evening, John. Well, yes, Sean Duffy, |
| 1:29.0 | Trump appointed suddenly out of the blue he announced he was appointing transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, |
| 1:32.1 | to become the temporary interim head of NASA. |
| 1:38.9 | The interim head of NASA since Bill Nelson, the Biden appointee, resigned when Trump took office, |
| 1:43.3 | had been Janet Piro, who had been a director at Kennedy Space Center. |
| 1:45.5 | She's an old NASA manager. |
| 1:47.7 | She's not a political type of appointee. |
| 1:55.1 | And she's been covering the situation while we waited to get a nomination and a confirmation of a Trump appointee. The first choice for NASA administrator by Trump was Jared Eisenman, but he withdrew that nomination about a month ago for reasons that are still a little bit unclear, though I had speculated and come up with some theories. |
| 2:09.1 | So, there he suddenly announces, Sean Duffy is going to take this role. |
| 2:12.2 | Whitey, yes, he'll do the transfer secretarian, also the interim NASA administrator while we wait for Trump to pick a nominee and then be confirmed by the Senate. |
| 2:24.3 | The consequences are completely unknown. I have no idea what's going to happen. I've read a lot of articles speculating in a number of ways. |
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