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Essay: Artemis Accords – why many countries are refusing to sign Moon exploration agreement – Sight Magazine
In an article first published on The Conversation, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN, professor of space law and policy at Northumbria University, Newcastle, examines the issues…
21 October 2020
CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN
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.
This may sound like progress. Nations have for a number of years struggled with the issue of how…
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