NEW DELHI: Days before PM Narendra modeof the visit to the USA from June 21 to 25, POT Officials are increasingly talking about ties in India to NASA’s Artemis Accords, which are a US-led effort to return humans to the Moon by 2025, with the ultimate goal of expanding space exploration to Mars and beyond.
TO US space expert He expected cooperation in the field of space to be one of the main areas of discussion between PM Modi and the US President. Joe Biden when they meet at the White House next week.
Bhavya Lal, the associate administrator for technology, policy and strategy within the NASA Administrator’s office, recently said that as of now, there are 25 signatories to the Artemis Accords and he expects India to become the 26th country. .
Lal, who studied in Delhi before earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT, previously served as NASA’s acting chief technologist. She said that India and the US needed to do more together in the Artemis programme.
Mike Gold, a US space expert and former NASA associate administrator for space policy and partnerships, said “the relationship between the US and India is absolutely critical on Earth, and possibly even more so in space.” . He also described India as a “sleeping giant” for whom the sky is no longer the limit. Gold, who is considered an architect of the Artemis Accords, also urged India to join the US lunar program. He also hoped that NASA would cooperate with Isro in its Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission, and that the International Space Station would become a destination for Indian astronauts.
In November 2022, the US kicked off its Artemis program by launching the Orion unmanned spacecraft to the Moon and safely returning it to Earth as a prelude to its crewed lunar mission. Interestingly, India and the US agreed earlier this year to advance space collaboration in several areas, under the umbrella of the ‘Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology’ (ICET), including human space exploration and commercial space partnership. .
If Modi and Biden discuss India joining NASA’s Artemis program and also cooperation in human space exploration, it will be a big boost for Isro’s space exploration projects. India is also about to launch its Chandrayaan-3 mission and the Aditya L-1 Sun mission in a few weeks.
Isro and NASA have worked together so far on the $1.5 billion NISAR satellite project, the world’s most expensive earth-observing satellite program, which, once launched next year, will measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces and ice sheet collapse. NASA also sent its payload to the Moon aboard the Indian Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft which, for the first time, found evidence of water on the Moon.
The Artemis Accords were signed on October 13, 2020 by several countries. As of June 5, 2023, 25 countries and one territory have signed the agreements, including 10 in Europe, seven in Asia, three in North America, two in Oceania, two in Africa, and two in South America. The Accords remain open for signature indefinitely, as NASA anticipates other nations to join. Additional signatories may choose to participate directly in Artemis program activities or may simply agree to commit to the principles for responsible exploration of the Moon set forth in the agreements.
TO US space expert He expected cooperation in the field of space to be one of the main areas of discussion between PM Modi and the US President. Joe Biden when they meet at the White House next week.
Bhavya Lal, the associate administrator for technology, policy and strategy within the NASA Administrator’s office, recently said that as of now, there are 25 signatories to the Artemis Accords and he expects India to become the 26th country. .
Lal, who studied in Delhi before earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT, previously served as NASA’s acting chief technologist. She said that India and the US needed to do more together in the Artemis programme.
Mike Gold, a US space expert and former NASA associate administrator for space policy and partnerships, said “the relationship between the US and India is absolutely critical on Earth, and possibly even more so in space.” . He also described India as a “sleeping giant” for whom the sky is no longer the limit. Gold, who is considered an architect of the Artemis Accords, also urged India to join the US lunar program. He also hoped that NASA would cooperate with Isro in its Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission, and that the International Space Station would become a destination for Indian astronauts.
In November 2022, the US kicked off its Artemis program by launching the Orion unmanned spacecraft to the Moon and safely returning it to Earth as a prelude to its crewed lunar mission. Interestingly, India and the US agreed earlier this year to advance space collaboration in several areas, under the umbrella of the ‘Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology’ (ICET), including human space exploration and commercial space partnership. .
If Modi and Biden discuss India joining NASA’s Artemis program and also cooperation in human space exploration, it will be a big boost for Isro’s space exploration projects. India is also about to launch its Chandrayaan-3 mission and the Aditya L-1 Sun mission in a few weeks.
Isro and NASA have worked together so far on the $1.5 billion NISAR satellite project, the world’s most expensive earth-observing satellite program, which, once launched next year, will measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces and ice sheet collapse. NASA also sent its payload to the Moon aboard the Indian Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft which, for the first time, found evidence of water on the Moon.
The Artemis Accords were signed on October 13, 2020 by several countries. As of June 5, 2023, 25 countries and one territory have signed the agreements, including 10 in Europe, seven in Asia, three in North America, two in Oceania, two in Africa, and two in South America. The Accords remain open for signature indefinitely, as NASA anticipates other nations to join. Additional signatories may choose to participate directly in Artemis program activities or may simply agree to commit to the principles for responsible exploration of the Moon set forth in the agreements.
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