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Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman Recommends NASA Can Save Needed Money by Doing Without the Safety Panel That Slows Down Projects Such as SpaceX. MorePreview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman Recommends NASA Can Save Needed Money by Doing Without the Safety Panel

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

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Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman Recommends NASA Can Save Needed Money by Doing Without the Safety Panel That Slows Down Projects Such as SpaceX. More
OCTOBER 1931

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather?

0:25.8

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.7

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:34.8

This is John Bachelor, colleague Bob Zimmerman, doge for NASA.

0:39.0

He looks at the budget, which is being reduced by the Trump administration,

0:42.7

and he finds an additional savings, small but significant,

0:45.6

the so-called NASA Safety Council.

0:48.1

Bob identifies what it does.

0:53.1

It doesn't make things necessarily safer, but it does make them slower.

0:58.3

Here's Bob to explain how the Safety Council ruled on the Dragon capsule.

1:03.9

The spacecraft that NASA now depends upon for cargo to and from ISS that SpaceX uses routinely for private missions, such as 2 by Jared Isaacman,

1:10.7

the new nominee to be administrator of NASA.

1:14.6

Bob Zimmerman on the Safety Council, you can do without it, NASA.

1:18.1

Save some money.

1:20.4

More of this tonight.

1:22.7

Years and years and years and years ago.

1:24.6

And I honestly say that NASA faces budget cuts.

1:31.6

There's no question to that.

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