NASA senior official Amit Kshatriya praised the agency’s collaboration with ISRO and expressed interest in expanding cooperation in science and human spaceflight. He highlighted the NISAR mission and Artemis Accords, while astronauts Peggy Whitson and Charles Bolden praised India’s space achievements
NASA’s invitation to ISRO to join its Moon programme will provide the Indian space agency with valuable hands-on experience in executing complex crewed missions
NASA has invited ISRO to join its Moon Base programme aimed at establishing a permanent human outpost near the lunar South Pole. The proposal emerged during India-US space talks in Bengaluru, alongside discussions on scientific data sharing and future human spaceflight cooperation
Besides the US, other founding member nations that have signed the Artemis Accords are Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, NASA said on Tuesday.
