Posted on 07/14/2020 8:42:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The agreement, called a Joint Exploration Declaration of Intent, was signed late July 9 in a virtual meeting between NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, in the United States, and Koichi Hagiuda, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Japanese government, in Japan.
“Today’s signing of this declaration of intent builds on the long history of successful cooperation between the U.S. and Japan in space,” Bridenstine said in a brief statement about the agreement. “We appreciate Japan’s strong support for Artemis and look forward to extending the robust partnership that we have enjoyed on the International Space Station to cislunar space, the lunar surface, and beyond.”
Neither government released the text of the declaration, but they described the document as outlining roles for Japan in both human and robotic exploration. That would include contributions to the lunar Gateway and lunar surface exploration.
Japanese officials said early this year that they expected to have a memorandum of understanding in place with NASA by the spring regarding contributions to Artemis. Yoshikazu Shoji, director of the international relations and research department at the Japanese space agency JAXA, said in January that Japan was interested in providing components like batteries and tanks for Gateway modules, data about the lunar surface and Gateway logistics using its new HTV-X cargo spacecraft.
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JEDI? Nice...
Ping.
Thank You AAC!
what the h@ll is ‘cislunar’???
Afraid to find out, given today’s lgbtq-mouse climate.
what the h@ll is ‘cislunar’???
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I was afraid to google it, but I couldn’t stop myself. Thankfully, it does *not* refer to the moon’s sexual orientation! Cislunar is all the space between the Earth and the Moon.
Can they get to work on that space battleship now?
*ping*
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