On Tuesday evening Bob Zimmerman gave his latest space news update on the John Batchelor radio program: Tues 7/23/13 Hr 3 – John Batchelor Show (podcast)

The topics included:

1. Spacesuit soap opera: NASA still doesn’t know what caused the leak, and is rushing spare parts to Russia to try to get them on a Progress scheduled for launch Saturday.
2. One of the salvaged Saturn 5 engines from the bottom of the Atlantic has been confirmed to come from Apollo 11.
3. Boeing unveils the interior of its CST-100 manned capsule.
4. SpaceX confirms that they will use their new upgraded engines on their first commercial launch of the Falcon 9 Sept 5.
5. The continuing problems of the James Webb Space Telescope.