15.04.2024 Szwajcaria została 37. państwem w programie Artemis Accords.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-switzerland-as-newest-artemis-accords-signatoryhttps://twitter.com/ParmelinG/status/1779917729262129340La🇨🇭est présente sur la scène spatiale internationale et contribue activement au retour sur la lune. En signant les accord Artemis avec la @NASA, elle promet de continuer à s'engager de manière renforcée,
comme membre fondateur de l'@esa pour les futurs projets d'exploration spatiale. Cette signature est le point culminant d'une mission scientifique et économique de la Suisse aux États-Unis.
Switzerland signs Artemis AccordsJeff Foust April 16, 2024
Swiss Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin signs the Artemis Accords as NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Martina Hirayama, Switzerland’s state secretary for education, research and innovation, look on. Credit: NASA/Keegan BarberWASHINGTON — Switzerland formally signed the Artemis Accords April 16, becoming the latest nation to join an agreement about sustainable space exploration.
In a ceremony at NASA Headquarters, Swiss Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, the country’s minister for economic affairs, education and research, signed the accords alongside NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and officials from both countries.
“The Artemis Accords constitute a leap forward in space cooperation,” Parmelin said in remarks at the signing event. “Switzerland’s signing of the Artemis Accords underscores our commitment to this ambition and our belief that cooperation to creating an improved framework for our space community.”
Both Parmelin and Nelson noted that cooperation between Switzerland and the United States in space dates back to Apollo 11, when one of the first instruments deployed by astronauts after landing on the lunar surface was a solar wind experiment from the University of Bern in Switzerland.
In comments after the event, Nelson noted Switzerland’s famed neutrality made its signing of the Artemis Accords significant. “It is all the more important that Switzerland would join a declaration of principles of the peaceful uses of space,” he said. (...)
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