Interoperability is how we do all of those things where we interact with each other as independent nations, but at the same time, how do we work together to do things that we couldn’t do alone but all of us together can do more than we would ever be able to do alone. And in fact, we call this – the document, we call it the Artemis Accords. And I’ll tell you, we have worked very hard as an agency to get bipartisan, apolitical support from members of Congress and senators in the United States of America. The first question was:  Why are you doing this? We also recognize that if we look at programs of the past that have proven to be very sustainable, the International Space Station is an amazing example. So we will take a question from Vlad, and then we will go to Simon. That is enshrined in the Artemis Accords, so we remain hopeful that Russia will join us in the Artemis program and, of course, adhere to the very basic tenants that we have all agreed to in the Outer Space Treaty. So it’s a repository of data and information of the early Sun and data and information of the early solar system. NASA had wanted a space station ever since it started sending people to space in the late 50s. Receive mail from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors? So registration is critically important for the deconfliction and making sure that we’re going with the norms of behavior. Mike N. Gold, Acting Associate Administrator for International and Interagency Relations, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We have to make sure that we are preserving space for the next generation and the generations that come after that. So with that, I’ll turn it over to Mike, if you have anything you want to add, and then we can open it up to questions. The station is a paragon of space-age cosmopolitanism, but this enduring international cooperation was hard-won.

Yeah, all good questions. We want to be clear:  Under the Artemis Accords, there – we – there is nobody interested in appropriating the Moon or other celestial bodies for national sovereignty. As for taking an abandon-in-place mindset, Logsdon doesn't think the space station partners would agree to just leave the orbiting lab vacant in orbit when they're through. While NASA is leading the Artemis program, international partnerships will play a key role in achieving a sustainable and robust presence on the Moon while preparing to conduct a historic human mission to Mars. I say that; I don’t want to insult any of our other international partners, but we get great astronauts from all of our international partners. Our next question – questioner is Simon Ateba. I am with Russian News Agency TASS.
And if I could just say to our friend in Africa, the Artemis Accords at the time just seemed like a dream as well. On November 2, 2000, astronaut Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev arrived at the International Space Station. Our  colleagues in Japan have an unprecedented budget request. Looming in the background of the space station's future beyond 2020 is talk by Russia of starting a second-generation space station on its own, Logsdon said. MR BRIDENSTINE: Yes. They’re all fantastic. These are the principles that we all agree to. And this could even include asteroids or comets. But for a lot of the international media, I want to start by just saying what the Artemis program is. Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. So in recent time, I’ve been fascinated with space.