A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest:

• Lunar plans:
  • Facing 2024 deadline, NASA issues a report defending the Lunar Gateway | Ars Technica
  • High cost, lack of support spell trouble for 2024 Moon landing plan | Ars Technica
  • Bridenstine plays down costs of 2024 moon landing – SpaceNews.com
  • NASA outlines plan for 2024 lunar landing – SpaceNews.com
  • The battle over Trump’s Moon effort exposes Washington’s power-hungry bureaucracy | Behind The Black
• SLS/Orion:
  • NASA weighing SLS Green Run versus EM-1 schedule risks – NASASpaceFlight.com
• Commercial Crew Program:
  • Dragon was destroyed just before the firing of its SuperDraco thrusters | Ars Technica
  • SpaceX Confirms Crew Dragon Capsule Destroyed During Test – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • A dark cloud on commercial crew’s horizon – The Space Review
• NASA science:
  • Satellite constellations and radio astronomy – The Space Review
  • The International Space Station has found its scientific calling | Science/AAAS
• Space traffic:
  • New Entrants in the National Airspace: Policy, Technology, and Security Issues for Congress – Hearings – U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, & Transportation
• Planetary defense:
  • Asteroid strike: NASA conducts drill for the end of the world – USAToday.com
  • NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise | NASA
  • Bridenstine Embraces Planetary Defense, Endorses NEOCam – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • Scientists lobby NASA for additional planetary defense missions – SpaceNews.com
• US state space:
  • Municipalities adopt spaceport resolutions – iosconews.com
  • SpaceX, Blue Origin drive private growth on Florida’s Space Coast – Axios
• US military space:
  • House appropriators press for details on Space Force cost and organization – SpaceNews.com
  • New Pentagon Report on China: Military and Security Developments – LeonardDavid.com
  • China Military Power Report (pdf)
• Canadian space:
  • How viable really is the plan to build a spaceport in the Northern Territory? – Curious Darwin/ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  • The Canadian Space Agency has Begun Issuing Millions of Dollars in New Canadarm Contracts for the US Lunar Gateway – The Commercial Space Blog
• Chinese space:
  • China plans to launch carrier rocket at sea – Xinhua | English.news.cn
• German space:
  • Germany To Draft New Space Laws And Regulations To Spur Lagging New Space Sector – SpaceWatch.Global
• Indian space:
  • India’s ASAT Test: An Incomplete Success – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • ‘Need to reshape India’s space policy amid increased threat perception from China, Pak’ | India Post
  • ISRO plans to launch radar imaging satellite in May – outlookindia.com
  • India aims to be 1st country to land rover on Moon’s south pole – Xinhua | English.news.cn
  • India set to launch second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 in July, landing by September – ThePrint.in
  • Chandrayaan-2 Update – ISRO
• Japanese space:
  • Japan to announce participation in US lunar project by year-end – The Mainichi
• Luxembourgian space:
  • US Secretary of Commerce to attend space MoU signing – Delano/Luxembourg in English
• Pakistani space:
  • Pakistan Signs Space Cooperation Agreement With China To Enable First Pakistani Astronaut – SpaceWatch.Global
  • China, Pakistan enter new phase in space exploration – Nation.com.pk
• Portuguese space:
  • Portugal Establishes National Space Agency Based In The Azores – SpaceWatch.Global
• Russian space:
  • First launch from Vostochny spaceport in 2019 planned for July 5 – TASS
• S. Korean space:
  • South Korean Government Approves Funds For Development Of Three Earth Observation Satellites – SpaceWatch.Global

Webcasts:

** How NASA is preparing to launch another mission to the moon – PBS News Hour with Miles O’Brien

The Trump administration wants NASA to get back to the moon by 2024, using any means necessary. But will the money and the commitment be there to support the effort? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien talks to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about technical and political risk, international competition and his broader vision for the agency.

** SpaceX Starlink Satellites in Lower Orbit got FCC Approval: Why Other Firms were Not Happy About It? – Engineering Today:

** The Space Show – Sun, 04/28/2019 – Michael Ciancone talked about his “‘Foreword to Spaceflight’ bibliography, 2019 IAC Washington, DC, Glenn Memorial Symposium, European Service Module for the Orion Program, service module integration, & more”.

** A video from DARPA about the Launch Challenge, which “aims to demonstrate flexible and responsive launch capabilities in days, not years, for our nation’s defense”: