have already been tapped to helm the flights, with South Korea set to be one of the first to hail a ride.
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Tuesday. While the U.S. and South Korea are already working together to launch an orbital mission to the moon, a South Korean lunar landing might not be far behind. On Monday,with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Harris announced that the two countries had signed a joint statement to strengthen cooperation in space exploration and that “South Korea will soon fly payloads through NASA’s Commercial Payload Services program.
As NASA and its international partners are gearing up to make long-term manned missions to the moon a reality, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program will play a major role inThe geopolitical equivalent of a kid throwing a baseball into a neighbor’s window is currently playing out in Scandinavia.
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