NASA Expands Open Science Through Artemis Accords Workshops

NASA hosted two virtual workshops from July 28 to September 8, 2026, to advance the Artemis Accords’ key tenet of timely scientific data release. The sessions, attended by 71 signatory nations, covered open‑science principles, implementation practices, and tools. NASA showcased the Planetary Data System, its open‑lunar data archive, and data‑visualization and analysis tools, offering a real‑world example of how the agency structures, curates, and shares planetary science data. The first session promoted interoperability, reproducibility, and transparency, while the second delivered a working model for signatories to build or refine their own data‑sharing frameworks. By making all Artemis program data freely available, NASA invites partners—including ISRO—to innovate together, accelerating lunar research and setting a foundation for future human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.