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PREVIEW: #ARTEMIS: #MOON: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re the Artemis Accords -- now 36 nations signing on with NASA and ESA and JAXA and the other space agencies to probvide protocols for the colonizing and exploiting of the Moon resources a

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: #ARTEMIS: #MOON: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re the Artemis Accords -- now 36 nations signing on with NASA and ESA and JAXA and the other space agencies to probvide protocols for the colonizing and exploiting of the Moon resources and risks. And how the #PRC and Russia have signed up a list of client states in contention. More later.

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0:00.0

This is John Batcher. The Artemis Accords is a coalition of 36 nations now,

0:05.0

I was signing on with NASA, the ESA, in order to prepare the protocols for occupying the moon, for experimenting on the moon, for rescue on the

0:16.3

moon, for disaster on the moon.

0:19.0

And that becomes a model for the rest of the solar system over time. The Artemis Accords. At the same time,

0:25.8

the People's Republic of China's non-transparent civilian military space program

0:31.4

is signing up other countries to participate in its

0:35.8

understanding along with Ros Cosmos of occupying the maroon, colonizing the

0:40.3

moon, exploiting the moon. There are very few of those nations and they all tend to be heavily

0:46.0

in debt and captive of the Chinese investor class. However, Bob makes another point about why so many sign on with ESA NASA SpaceX,

0:58.0

because private enterprise will participate in much, if not all all of the lunar landers in the next years, SpaceX

1:07.5

in the lead, but also why there's so few countries signing on with China, given how generous they are to their clients.

1:16.0

Here's Bob Zimmerman talking about Artemis and the rest.

1:20.0

This is John Batcher. The Artemis Accords is a coalition of 36 nations now,

1:27.0

all signing on with NASA, the ESA, in order to prepare the protocols for occupying the moon, for experimenting on the

1:36.9

moon, for rescue on the moon, for disaster on the moon, and that becomes a model

1:41.8

for the rest of the solar system over time, the Artemis Accords.

1:46.0

At the same time, the People's Republic of China's non-transparent civilian military space program is signing up other countries to

1:56.4

participate in its understanding along with Roscosmos of occupying

2:00.5

the maroon colonizing the moon, exploiting the moon.

2:04.6

There are very few of those nations, and they all tend to be heavily in debt and

2:09.0

captive of the Chinese investor class.

2:12.3

However, Bob makes another point about why so many sign on with

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