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#SpaceX: Regulating commercial spaceflight. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

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#SpaceX: Regulating commercial spaceflight. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/report-recommends-congress-allow-full-regulation-of-commercial-human-spaceflight/

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0:00.0

This is CBS. I'm John Bachel from the surface of the planet Earth to Boca Chica, Texas.

0:11.6

The stack starship on Super Heavy. Bob Zimmerman, he keeps the website behind the

0:16.1

black. We're waiting, waiting, waiting. There's news here. Bob, a very good even to Elon

0:21.7

Musk is being direct in his expectations for the maiden voyage of Starship and Super Heavy.

0:29.4

What are the dates looking now? Good evening to you.

0:32.2

Good evening, John. Well, we don't have a lot of new information. What we do have is a

0:37.0

tweet by Elon Musk and that's it. His tweet, this was on Monday, April 10th, Starship launched

0:44.6

trending towards near the end of the third week of April. Now, the last date they were

0:50.4

aiming for was April 17th, which is the start of that week. So now he's saying the end

0:55.8

of that week for the launch. What he's doing, I think, Musk is pushing the launch back

1:03.8

very tiny amounts each time to keep the pressure on the FAA, but he's being very diplomatic

1:09.8

about it. He has said in a previous tweet last week that quote, Starship is ready for

1:15.3

launch awaiting regulatory approval, close quotes. Once again, he's being very diplomatic.

1:20.4

He doesn't want to make the federal bureaucrats his enemies. He wants to work with them, but

1:24.7

he also wants to keep the pressure on to make them move faster. In fact, by doing it this

1:30.1

way, he wants to do is let others put the pressure on him more bluntly, such as myself, and

1:37.9

say that these guys are about to get their act together, stop the lame progress. So that's

1:43.4

where we stand. They were supposed to do a static fire, a dress rehearsal countdown this

1:49.3

week, but I've heard no word about when that will happen at this point. First, talk about

1:53.4

it on Monday, but I've heard nothing. That doesn't mean it isn't going to happen, but this

1:57.7

week early in the week is supposed to happen, and I've heard nothing. This is giving us a hint

2:04.3

of John, what's going to be the case in our second story today. So if you don't mind,

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