Keith’s note: it looks like the iSpace HAKUTO-R lunar lander crashed on the Moon. telemetry was lost when it was going 180 km/hr a minute or so before planned touchdown. I was on Deutsche Welle TV shortly thereafter to talk about this [Audio] (video below) . Meanwhile President Trump and Elon Musk are having a heated back-and-forth on social media. At one point Trump suggested cutting Musk’s contracts. I was on Bloomberg TV to talk through that. When asked for an initial impression I did the classic shocked face expression that the kid actor did on the movie “Home Alone”. [Audio] (video below)

Proxima puts European space on silver screen, ESA “The film also remains faithful to the international nature of space exploration, mixing an international cast and multilingual dialogue. “The world of space exploration is like that. It’s a community of humans, in which Europeans, Americans, Russians and others live and work together in space,” said Winocour. “Often in cinema, space exploration is represented through the prism of America’s space agency NASA, […]

Keith’s note: Go to 36:50 for a question to Rick Leach from CASIS about their plans for space commercialization and to HEOMD AA Bill Gerstenmaier at 2:08:20 for a question about whether NASA thinks that it can still transfer the total cost of ISS operations to the private sector – as was their plan last year.

NASA’s plan to get to the Moon by 2024 isn’t ready yet, The Verge “Horn demanded to know why the amendment isn’t ready yet during today’s hearing. “We recognize that this is a really serious challenge we have to weigh in front of us, and we need a really solid plan,” William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and an expert at today’s hearing, responded. He added: “We need […]

Starhopper completed tethered hop. All systems green. https://t.co/0m5Bm5slD2 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 4, 2019

Keith’s note: I did an interview live on CGTN 3 hours before the landing of Chang’e-4 was confirmed. I was on Deutsche Welle just after the landing.