Jordan has joined the Artemis Accords, becoming the 63rd country to sign the US-led framework for peaceful and transparent space exploration, NASA announced Thursday.
The Hashemite Kingdom signed the accords at a ceremony at NASA headquarters in Washington, joining an international group of countries committed to shared principles for civil exploration of the Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids.
The Artemis Accords were launched in October 2020 by the United States and seven founding partners: Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Since then, dozens of countries have joined, including Israel, India and now Jordan.
Jordan is the fourth country to join the accords in 2026, after Portugal, Oman and Latvia. Because apparently even space diplomacy has a waiting list now, though at least this one involves fewer committees and more rockets.
The accords are led by NASA and the US State Department and are rooted in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. They are non-binding, but set out a common political understanding for countries involved in space exploration, including commitments to peaceful activity, transparency, emergency assistance, sharing scientific data, registering space objects, reducing orbital debris and avoiding harmful interference with other missions.
