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Nov. 24, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-140 NASA Administrator to Travel
to India, UAE; Discuss Space Cooperation
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gives remarks after Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Sandhu signed the Artemis Accords, Wednesday,
June 21, 2023, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington. NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will travel to India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a series of meetings beginning Monday, Nov. 27, with
key government officials. Nelson also will meet with space officials in both countries to deepen bilateral cooperation across a broad range of innovation and research-related
areas, especially in human exploration and Earth science. The visit to India fulfills a commitment through the United States and India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology spearheaded by President
Joe Biden. Nelson will visit several locations in India, including the Bengaluru-based facilities where the NISAR spacecraft, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), is undergoing testing and integration
for launch in 2024. NISAR
is short for NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar. As the first satellite mission between NASA and ISRO, NISAR is a revolutionary Earth-observing instrument, the first in the Earth System Observatory,
that will measure Earth’s changing ecosystems, dynamic surfaces, and ice masses providing information about biomass, natural hazards, sea level rise, and groundwater, key information to guide efforts related to climate change, hazard mitigation, agriculture,
and more. While in the UAE, Nelson will participate in the
2023
United Nations Climate Change Conference, highlighting NASA’s role as a global leader in providing decisionmakers with critical Earth-science data.
It will be the first time a NASA administrator will have attended the conference. Students in each country also will have the opportunity to meet with Nelson to discuss science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
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