The nation is ready to support the United States’ lower-cost lunar missions, its space agency chief said, after the US administration proposed a US$6bil cut to Nasa’s budget that could upend the Artemis programme to return people to the moon.
US-led Artemis, established during President Donald Trump’s first term and joined by partners including Japan, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canada, has grown into a multibillion-dollar project aiming to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972.
