Astronaut Mike Massimino: Living in Space 3/18/25

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Federal Reserve begins its two-day meeting today, but Rockefeller Capital Management CEO Greg Fleming argues that uncertainty around economic factors like tariffs might have the central bank on hold. Google will make its biggest acquisition to date, agreeing to $32B for cloud security startup Wiz. In other news, President Trump and President Putin will meet via phone, and Chinese EV company BYD has unveiled supercharged EV charging. Plus, two astronauts are finally on their way home from the International Space Station, thanks to SpaceX; astronaut Mike Massimino answers all our questions about space travel, from bathroom concerns and hygiene strategies. Greg Fleming - 13:22 Mike Massimino - 24:28 In this episode: Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.0	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.0	The Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting.
0:12.0	Rockefeller Capital Management CEO Greg Fleming says, please hold.
0:16.0	If you're the Fed now, you are truly data dependent with no ability really to move ahead of it because
0:22.0	you don't know what the it is because it's a completely unique time.
0:26.4	And two astronauts long overdue for their return to Earth, hitching a ride on a space
0:31.2	X craft, NASA vet Mike Massimino on the journey and the privatization and commercialization of space travel.
0:38.3	This is really what NASA has turned its attention to.
0:41.3	Really going back to the space shuttle program, be well before I was an astronaut.
0:45.3	The hope was that commercialization would start back then.
0:49.3	Plus, the presidential phone call expected today between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin,
0:55.2	EV Innovation in China, and Google making its largest acquisition ever, $32 billion for cloud security startup, WIS.
1:03.9	You know, nobody beats the WIS.
1:05.9	I think those commercials, how old are they? Do you remember?
1:08.5	Very old. I'm big.
1:09.4	Are they? Yeah.
1:11.2	It's Tuesday, March 18,, 2025. Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:17.1	Stand Becky by in three, two, one. Cure, please.
1:22.3	Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box right here on CNBC. We're live from the
1:27.1	NASDAQ market site in
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