Monday, December 21, 2020

"Good Night, Moon"

Waxing crescent

6.6 days old

41.9 percent

December 17, 2020
By Dan Robitzski

NASA just struck a historic deal (click here) with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that will entail, for the first time in history, a non-US astronaut orbiting the Moon.

The agreement says that the CSA will help NASA with its upcoming Artemis Moon missions in exchange for a seat on some of the flights, according to Space.com. Not only is the CSA’s support good news for the Artemis missions specifically, but it’s a major international development in the future of crewed space exploration....