{"id":3782,"date":"2013-08-03T06:03:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T06:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2013-08-04T05:29:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T05:29:31","slug":"space-on-the-john-batchelor-show-bob-zimmerman-hotel-mars-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"Space on The John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman + Hotel Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Bob Zimmerman<\/a> talked about space during two episodes of the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/johnbatchelorshow.com\/\" target=\"_d\">John Batchelor<\/a> radio program this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbatchelorshow.com\/podcasts\/2013\/07\/31\/third-hour\" target=\"_d\"><strong>Wed 7\/31\/13 Hr 3 Batchelor<\/strong> :\u00a0<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Friday, an astronaut on ISS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/22160-space-station-astronaut-drives-rover.html\" target=\"_blank\">controlled and steered<\/a> a rover on Earth.\u00a0 <em>While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet\u2019s surface, the European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220-pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon-mimicking landscape here at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film-based radio telescope antenna.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>A supernova <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/news\/Supernova-Erupts-in-Messier-74-217327171.html\" target=\"_blank\">has exploded<\/a> in the galaxy M74, only 30 million light years away.\u00a0 This is one of the closest supernovae in recent years. Though it&#8217;s still brightening and has reached 12th magnitude, it&#8217;s not expected to brighten to naked-eye visibility (about 6th magnitude). Astronomers however have spotted the progenitor star in archival Hubble images, which they have identified as a M-type red supergiant that was also particularly bright in the infrared.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnbatchelorshow.com\/podcasts\/2013\/08\/01\/third-hour\" target=\"_d\"><strong>Thurs 8\/1\/13 Hr 3 Batchelor<\/strong> :<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The embarrassing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jul\/31\/spaceflight-age-obama-star-treks-galileo-shuttlecr\/\" target=\"_blank\">unveiling at JSC this week of the StarTrek shuttle craft <em>Galileo &#8212;<\/em> instead of a real space shuttle.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Battle between several Republican Congresspersons and NASA over\u00a0 NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2013\/july\/nasa-completes-first-internal-review-of-concepts-for-asteroid-redirect-mission\/#.UflIDaI3vSd\" target=\"_blank\">proposed mission<\/a> to capture an asteroid, which Republicans are disinclined to support.<\/li>\n<li>Neither Democrats nor Republicans are willing to acknowledge that the space agency is being tasked with building a huge and powerful rocket it will not be able to afford to fly.\u00a0 A discussion of John Strickland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2330\/1#idc-cover\" target=\"_blank\">analysis of costs<\/a> of NASA\u2019s Space Launch System and Orion.<\/li>\n<li>The real budget problems at NASA; the inability of Congress to deal with them intelligently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Hotel Mars segment on the John Batchelor show included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icarusinterstellar.org\/team\/richard-obousy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Richard Obousy<\/a> who talked about the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icarusinterstellar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Icarus Interstellar<\/a> project, faster-than-light travel, and breakthrough propulsion :\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thespaceshow.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/01\/john-batchelor-hotel-mars-wednesday-7-31-13\/\" target=\"_d\">John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 7-31-13- Thespaceshow&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Zimmerman talked about space during two episodes of the\u00a0 John Batchelor radio program this week. Wed 7\/31\/13 Hr 3 Batchelor :\u00a0\u00a0 On Friday, an astronaut on ISS controlled and steered a rover on Earth.\u00a0 While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet\u2019s surface, the European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3782\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space on The John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman + 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_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":[2,7,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-space-policy","category-spacecasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Z0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5669,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5669","url_meta":{"origin":3782,"position":0},"title":"Mars Quarterly, Fall 2013 + Opportunity rover on Hotel Mars + Bob Zimmerman on Batchelor show","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mars Society\u00a0opens access to the latest issue of the \u00a0The Mars Quarterly (Fall 2013). === Dr. William Farrand\u00a0of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado\u00a0talked with David Livingston and John Batchelor on this week's Hotel Mars segment about the history of the Mars rover Opportunity and what it has\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":2459,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2459","url_meta":{"origin":3782,"position":1},"title":"Space on the John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman &#038; Hotel Mars, May 21-23, 2013","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 23, 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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