France Hitches a Ride on NASA’s Next Mission to the Moon

(Bloomberg) -- France has joined a NASA-led moon mission and Europe should do the same, the French space chief said.The American and French space agencies, NASA and CNES, signed an accord during the Paris Air Show on June 19 that will allow France to take part in the mission dubbed “Artemis,” after the Greek goddess of hunting and the moon. The U.S.-designed project aims to send "the first woman and the next man" to the lunar surface as soon as 2024.“There’s a certain enthusiasm around the mission," CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall said in an interview in the French capital after talks between the heads of the world’s major space agencies. "…