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Ceremony with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Indian Ambassador Taranjit Sandhu, as India signs the Artemis Accords. U.S. Department of State, Deputy Assistant Secretary for India, Nancy Jackson, left, looks on.
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

In February, Uruguay became the 36th country to sign the Artemis Accords, a set of non-binding principles to spawn responsible actions on the Moon.

The Accords were established in 2020, formulated by NASA, in coordination with the U.S. Department of State. Since that time, there’s been a steady pace of countries inking the Artemis Accords.

Credit: NASA

A premise of the Accords is promoting “best practices and norms of responsible behavior.”

That’s a tall order given the tumult of the times.

I recently pulsed specialists as to how the Accords are playing globally, as well as within the eagle-eye, legal-beagle community.

Go to my Space.com story – “Cooperation on the Moon: Are the Artemis Accords enough?” – at:

https://www.space.com/artemis-accords-moon-cooperation-pros-cons-signing

Image credit: NASA