Artemis Accords: why many countries are refusing to sign Moon exploration agreement – Australian Times

Christopher Newman, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Eight countries have signed the Artemis Accords, a set of guidelines surrounding the Artemis Program for crewed exploration of the Moon. The United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates and the US are now all participants in the project, which aims to return humans to the moon by 2024 and establish a crewed lunar base by 2030.
Illustration of a future Moon base by the European Space Agency, which hasnt…

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