ESA & NASA | Forward to the Moon
The European Space Agency and NASA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to take Europe to the Moon.
This historic agreement will see ESA Member States contribute a number of essential elements to the first human outpost in lunar orbit, known as the Gateway.
It confirms ESA’s commitment to delivering at least two European Service Modules that provide electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen to NASA’s Orion spacecraft – with more to come. ESA will fly astronauts to the Gateway as the result of the MoU.
ESA’s head of the Legal Services, Marco Ferrazzani, explains how these agreements will take us forward to the Moon.
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will we see esa astronauts landing on the moon? if so, when will that happen?
The reality is less glamourous. So far, many European countries have refused to sign the Artemis Accords proposed by the US. That "international" partnership is deemed too Americano-centric and doesn't guarantee that ESA astronauts will actually fly to the Gateway station (let alone the Moon surface).
https://theconversation.com/artemis-accords-why-many-countries-are-refusing-to-sign-moon-exploration-agreement-148134
That's great news for space exploration ! Happy to see that my passion is one of the only thing that can unite us !
What about Jaxa?