The new treaty opens access to Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, United Arab
Artemis будет самой широкой и самой разнообразной the international program for human space exploration in history, and the Artemis Accords are the vehicle for this unique global coalition. With today's agreement, we unite with our partners to explore the Moon and establish vital principles that will create a secure, peaceful and prosperous future in space for all of humanity.
Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator
Although NASA is spearheading the Artemis program,The agency emphasized the need for international partnerships to build a sustainable presence on the moon. This is a key moment ahead of a possible human mission to Mars.
NASA hopes, for example, to dig up ice in the southernthe pole of the moon to provide both drinking water and by splitting molecules into pieces to make rocket fuel for further space travel.
The agency also plans to create an orbiting space station called Gateway.
NASA said the Artemis Accords strengthen and implement the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and are broadly divided into 10 principles.
The signatories undertake, for example,adhere to peaceful exploration, create hardware systems that each participating country can control, and register their space objects. All work must be transparent.
Other principles include an agreement thatcountries will provide emergency assistance to each other, publicize their scientific data, preserve the heritage of outer space and plan for the safe disposal of space debris.
The announcement was made the day afterafter Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said Moscow was unlikely to participate in the Gateway space station, which heralds a possible end to the type of close collaboration seen over two decades on the International Space Station (ISS).
The Artemis agreements also exclude China.a growing space rival of the United States. The PRC has its own active lunar program with its own international cooperation. Last month, a Chinese-German team published daily measurements of radiation on the lunar surface recorded by the Chang'E 4 lander in 2019. They concluded that radiation levels limited astronauts to two or three months on the Moon. This is vital information that the American Apollo missions failed to collect in the 1960s and 1970s.
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