On the radio
The podcast of my thirty minute appearance with Bill Bartholomew in Rhode Island is now available here. His description of our talk:
Bill Bartholomew welcomes Bob Zimmerman, the person behind the website Behind The Black for a conversation on all things space. How might the 2020 elections impact space exploration and technology? What are some of the key issues and projects the U.S. is involved in the space exploration and technology sectors?
Enjoy!
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Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
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The podcast of my thirty minute appearance with Bill Bartholomew in Rhode Island is now available here. His description of our talk:
Bill Bartholomew welcomes Bob Zimmerman, the person behind the website Behind The Black for a conversation on all things space. How might the 2020 elections impact space exploration and technology? What are some of the key issues and projects the U.S. is involved in the space exploration and technology sectors?
Enjoy!
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are five ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation:
5. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above. And if you buy the books through the ebookit links, I get a larger cut and I get it sooner.
Thanks, Bob. A pleasure. Look forward to another round.
I just listened to the podcast and was taken back a little bit on Ron going from independent reporter to advocate/marketer for privatization of the space program. Having worked a split career in both government and the private sector, including privatization efforts in transportation, anyone who picks one side over the other had a fundamental lack of knowledge of the depth of issues in true public-private partnerships. Sorry Ron. Stick to reporting facts.
Ted Ferragut: Sorry, but it is hard to take your criticism seriously when you can’t even get my name right.
Bob, I sincerely apologize for getting your name wrong. And I have no intent to embarrass you or myself. I am sincere about advocating vs reporting on privatization of space program. A great space program with a privatization component demands a robust and intelligent public sector to maintain effective leadership in space. I believe that Government needs skill and expertise for science exploration, military requirements, international treaties, public safety, and more.. I represented the private sector in transportation privatization and we succeeded where we had strong public sector skills and cooperation. All I am saying.
Ted Ferragut: Read my policy paper, Capitalism in Space. Or maybe one or two of my histories. I do not speak from ignorance. Nor do I completely dismiss the need for government. We are supposed to be a nation of laws and limited government. The laws require government to administer them. The government is also responsible for defending that nation. The citizenry, as individuals, are supposed to exercise their own “self-government” (to use Washington’s words) and not rely on that government to manage their own personal lives.
The problem has and continues to be a government over-reaching its responsibility as described, and a public eager to let it.