{"id":1287,"date":"2013-03-22T06:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2013-03-22T06:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T06:40:06","slug":"john-batchelor-show-bob-zimmermans-thurs-report-curiosity-update-on-hotel-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman&#8217;s Thurs. report + Curiosity update on Hotel Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Bob Zimmerman<\/a> spoke on the <a href=\"http:\/\/johnbatchelorshow.com\/\" target=\"_d\">John Batchelor<\/a> radio program on Thursday night (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbatchelorshow.com\/podcasts\/2013\/03\/21\/fourth-hour\" target=\"_blank\">podcast<\/a>) about the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Curiosity is out of safe mode, though communications in April will be very limited.<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Bezos has recovered from the ocean floor two first stage engines from an Apollo Saturn 5 rocket.<\/li>\n<li>The company that launches the Proton rocket commercially has lowered its prices.<\/li>\n<li>Voyager 1 has almost? maybe? left the solar system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(See the <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1244\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post here<\/a> about Bob&#8217;s Tuesday night report.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ralph Milliken of Brown University talked with John Bachelor and\u00a0 David Livingston on Wednesday during the weekly <em>Hotel Mars<\/em> segment about the Mars Curiosity rover and its drilling tests, about the building blocks for life, and about Mars organics: <a href=\"http:\/\/thespaceshow.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/20\/the-john-batchelor-hotel-mars-show-wednesday-3-20-13\/\" target=\"_d\">The John Batchelor Hotel Mars Show, Wednesday, 3-20-13 &#8211; Thespaceshow&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Zimmerman spoke on the John Batchelor radio program on Thursday night (podcast) about the following topics: Curiosity is out of safe mode, though communications in April will be very limited. Jeff Bezos has recovered from the ocean floor two first stage engines from an Apollo Saturn 5 rocket. The company that launches the Proton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman&#8217;s Thurs. report + Curiosity update on Hotel Mars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-general","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-kL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2565,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2565","url_meta":{"origin":1287,"position":0},"title":"Space on the John Batchelor Show with Bob Zimmerman and Hotel Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Bob Zimmerman reports on the latest space news during regular weekly slots (usually Tuesday and Thursdays) on the John Batchelor radio program. 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