Nelson Aschabcher
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (left) and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher signed a joint statement on lunar exploration cooperation Sept. 19 during the International Astronautical Congress.

NASA and the European Space Agency signed an agreement on cooperation on lunar exploration activities that could open the door to additional ESA roles in the NASA-led Artemis effort.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...