Washington: According to a senior NASA official, India needs to be a part of the Artemis team, which brings together like-minded countries to conduct civil space exploration, because the country is a global power and one of the few with independent access to space.
The Artemis Accords are a collection of principles for civil space exploration and utilisation in the 21st century, based on the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST). It's an American-led mission to put humans back on the moon by 2025, with Mars and beyond as the ultimate prize.