U.S. and Indian officials at JPL
U.S. and Indian officials, including ISRO Chairman S. Somanath and JPL Director Laurie Leshin (center), reviewed the status of the payload for the NISAR mission as part of a visit to the U.S. by Somanath that secured expanded cooperation between the two countries in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

WASHINGTON — U.S. and Indian officials agreed this week to expand civil space cooperation, including training Indian astronauts and flying payloads on commercial lunar landers.

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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...