On the Space Show tonight
Tonight I will be doing another long appearance from 7:00-9:00 pm (Pacific) with David Livingston on The Space Show. I hope my readers tune in and, more importantly, call in with questions.
When I scheduled this with David several months ago, I told him my expectation was that Starship/Superheavy would still be on the ground due to government blockage. He hoped not. I am sad to say I was right, when I really really wanted to be wrong.
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Tonight I will be doing another long appearance from 7:00-9:00 pm (Pacific) with David Livingston on The Space Show. I hope my readers tune in and, more importantly, call in with questions.
When I scheduled this with David several months ago, I told him my expectation was that Starship/Superheavy would still be on the ground due to government blockage. He hoped not. I am sad to say I was right, when I really really wanted to be wrong.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows 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. 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. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally 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.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four 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 or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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Early this morning I was reading that the FAA approval was expected to drop today and launch was on schedule for the 6th. Then the FAA announces that they are done with “their part” but are not issuing a launch permit yet as they are still waiting on the FWS to complete their review. Reading between the lines, NASA HLS and SpaceX were both caught off guard by this, expecting the actual full license approval today. This is the time when the senators and house representatives from Texas and Florida both *should* be on the phones to the FAA and FWS asking pointed questions, but for some reason they never are.
Too busy shmoozing, hustling for dough, and figuring out which telephone book sized bill to sign on to – unread we can guess.
David Eastman: I continue to be amazed how anyone can be “caught off guard” by these delays. The default expectation from these paper-pushers under Biden administration supervision should always be delays, delays, delays.
I still stand by my prediction that this launch will not happen this year. And even if it does, delays of many months for endless investigations after each test launch make Boca Chica useless to SpaceX.
Either something changes in the federal government (requiring a different president), or SpaceX has to start considering alternatives.