lunar Gateway
Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, said the lunar Gateway is too "U.S.-centric" for Russia to participate in, even though the Gateway will use the same intergovernmental agreement as the ISS. Credit: NASA

WASHINGTON — NASA and the Japanese government have completed an agreement outlining Japan’s contributions to the lunar Gateway as NASA works to wrap up international contributions to the outpost.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...