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NASA is preparing a contract for the extraction of resources on the moon, but without the participation of Russia

US Presidential Administration Donald Trump is developing a legal project to extract resources on the moon in accordance with a new US-sponsored international agreement called Artemis Accords, the publication said. Reuters People familiar with the proposed pact.

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The agreement will be the latest attempt to attract allies to NASA's plan to bring people and space stations to the moon over the next decade. The space agency is playing an increasing role in the implementation of American foreign policy. The draft pact has not yet been officially handed over to the US allies.

The United States and other countries see the moon as a key strategic asset in space. The moon is also important for long-term scientific research, which could provide the possibility of future missions to Mars.

The "Artemis Accords," named after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's new Artemis Moon program, propose "safety zones" that would surround future lunar bases to prevent damage or interference from competing countries or companies operating in close proximity.

Sources said the pact also aims to provide, within the framework of international law, the basis for the ownership of companies the resources they produce.

In the coming weeks, US authorities plan to formally negotiate agreements with space partners such as Canada, Japan and European countries, as well as with the United Arab Emirates, and begin negotiations with countries that, according to the White House, may become “like-minded” in production resources on the moon.

Sources said that Russia, NASA's main partner on the International Space Station, will not be the primary partner in these agreements, as the Pentagon increasingly sees Moscow as hostile to US satellites in Earth orbit.

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The United States is a party to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and views the “security zones” as the implementation of one of the articles under discussion. It states that the celestial bodies and the moon "are not subject to national appropriation, sole use and occupation."

“This is not some kind of territorial grab,” one of the sources said. According to him, the security zones, the size of which will vary depending on the operation, will allow coordination between space actors without considering the territory technically sovereign.

“The idea is that if you're going to get close to someone's territory and they've declared it their security zone, then you need to contact representatives in advance, consult and figure out how you can do it safely for everyone,” the source said.

The Artemis Accords are part of the Trump administration's plan to abandon the United Nations treaty process and instead reach an agreement with like-minded parties, in part because the treaty process would take too long and working with non-spacefaring nations would be counterproductive. .

As countries increasingly view space as a new military domain, the US-led agreement also symbolizes NASA's growing role as a tool for US diplomacy and is expected to spark controversy between Washington's space rivals such as China.

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“NASA is all about science, technology and discovery, which are critically important, but I think less prominent is the idea that NASA is an instrument of diplomacy,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

“The important thing is that countries around the world want to be part of this,” Bridenstine said, adding that participation in the Artemis program depends on countries adhering to “the norms of behavior that we expect to see” in space.

NASA is investing tens of billions of dollars in the Artemis program, which promises to send people to the moon by 2024 and further create a “sustainable presence” at the south pole of the moon, and private companies will mine lunar rocks and groundwater that can be converted into rocket fuel.

In 2015, the United States passed a law granting companies ownership of the resources they mine in outer space, but there are no such laws in the international community.

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