{"id":3595,"date":"2013-07-24T05:22:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2013-07-24T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T05:22:48","slug":"the-john-bachelor-show-space-news-from-bob-zimmerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3595","title":{"rendered":"The John Bachelor Show : Space News from Bob Zimmerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday evening <a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Bob Zimmerman<\/a> gave his latest space news update on the <a href=\"http:\/\/johnbatchelorshow.com\/\" target=\"_d\">John Batchelor<\/a> radio program: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbatchelorshow.com\/podcasts\/2013\/07\/23\/third-hour\" target=\"_d\">Tues 7\/23\/13 Hr 3 &#8211; John Batchelor Show (podcast)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The topics included:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Spacesuit soap opera: NASA still doesn&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<li>One of the salvaged Saturn 5 engines from the bottom of the Atlantic has been confirmed to come from Apollo 11.<\/li>\n<li>Boeing unveils the interior of its CST-100 manned capsule.<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX confirms that they will use their new upgraded engines on their first commercial launch of the Falcon 9 Sept 5.<\/li>\n<li>The continuing problems of the James Webb Space Telescope.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday evening Bob Zimmerman gave his latest space news update on the John Batchelor radio program: Tues 7\/23\/13 Hr 3 &#8211; John Batchelor Show (podcast) The topics included: Spacesuit soap opera: NASA still doesn&#8217;t know what caused the leak, and is rushing spare parts to Russia to try to get them on a Progress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The John Bachelor Show : Space News from Bob Zimmerman<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[2,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-spacecasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-VZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=85","url_meta":{"origin":3595,"position":0},"title":"John Batchelor Show: Hotel Mars + Bob Zimmerman [Update]","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"During this week's Hotel Mars segment on\u00a0John Batchelor radio program, Gerald Nordley talked with Batchelor and David Livingston \"about Kepler Space Telescope extrasolar planet discoveries, the habitable zone, Earthlike planets, the Kepler naming and identification system and more\": John Batchelor Show Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 1-16-13 - Thespaceshow's Blog. === Bob\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2215,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2215","url_meta":{"origin":3595,"position":1},"title":"Space on the John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman &#038; Hotel Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 10, 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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