Kharkiv in the "Artemis Accords": A country that stops looking at the sky will eventually lose its land

Collage by Olena Zelenina.

The United States has taken a historic step in space exploration: for the first time since 1972, a manned spacecraft has headed to the Moon. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, ushering in a new era of NASA's Artemis program—a program in which Kharkiv enterprises are active participants.