Turkey will sign the Artemis Accords in a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. EDT on August 31 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., becoming the 71st nation to join the agreement. The event will be hosted by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır, with participation from U.S. State Department officials. Media interested in attending must RSVP to hq-media@mail.nasa.gov by 11 a.m. on August 31; the ceremony is in person only. The Artemis Accords were established in 2020 by NASA, the U.S. State Department and seven other nations to set principles for civil space exploration on the Moon, Mars and beyond. The signing expands international participation in lunar and planetary exploration.