America’s return to the Moon and UK lunar ambitions

After the first soft Moon landing from the United States in over 50 years, Ken Kremer - from Space Up Close in Florida - shares his excitement for commercial spaceflight and Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lander, NASA’s ongoing lunar ambitions, his concerns over China stealing a lunar edge, and how the space coast has changed with the huge increase in launches. We also hear from the UK Space Agency's Head of Space Exploration, Libby Jackson, fresh from a NASA workshop in Washington to discuss the progress for Artemis 2 and 3, Gateway and the privately funded all-British Axiom mission. Plus, after ESA’s European Remote-Sensing Satellite ERS-2 finally fell to Earth after almost 30 years in space, Airbus’ Ralph Cordey reminds us what it achieved and what decisions go into de-orbiting a satellite...

(Image IM-1 lunar descent, courtesy Intuitive Machines).