New parties to Artemis Accords 2024
❖ Slovakia and Peru signed NASA's Artemis Accords, the U.S.led agreement on the safe exploration of space. ❖ The addition of these two nations brings the total of signing countries to 42. ❖ The Artemis Accords were first launched and signed in October 2020 by eight nations, including the United States. ❖ It aims to setting common principles to govern civil exploration and use of outer space, the moon, Mars, comets, and asteroids, for peaceful purposes.