December 5, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor/Livingston podcast about Apollo 8

This podcast was specifically to talk about the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon in 1968, and my book, Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8. John Batchelor and David Livingston allowed me to tell a lot of stories, some from the book and some from my private conversations with the astronauts and their families.

Embedded below the fold in two parts.

Note that I will be doing a much longer interview with John Batchelor on the December 23-24, 2023 weekend about Apollo 8 and my book. John scheduled this preliminary short interview so that his weekday audience (different from his weekend audience) could hear about the book.
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October 31, 2023 Zimmerman/Space Show podcast

The podcast of my appearance last night on the Space Show with David Livingston is now available. You can download it here.

The discussion almost entirely centered on the delays getting government approvals for the next Starship/Superheavy test launch. The best part I think was the conversation between myself and Charles Lurio, publisher of the very well-respected space newsletter The Lurio Report.

Also, I think one of my regular readers and commenters here at BtB called in with some good questions, but I am not sure. If so, please confirm in the comments below.

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.

On the radio today

Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas will be airing a segment with me today we taped late last week, discussing SpaceX’s effort to get the FAA to issue a launch license for the next test orbital launch of Starship/Superheavy. It will run as the last segment today, somewhere after 5:30pm Central (with some affiliates differing on the timing). The live stream links are here.

Afterward it will post as a podcast here. The podcast is now available here. I have embedded it below.

Though there has been some additional information in the licencing since last week, nothing I said has become invalid. SpaceX still waits for the blessings of the nobility in Washington’s bureaucracy, controlled by people who have become very addicted to ruling over others.

The sad part is that so many news sources today seem okay with that, and don’t like it when people like me question it. Whatever happened to the independent and skeptical press?
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