Minister of Foreign Affairs for Serbia Marko Đurić (right) signs the Artemis Accords on July 16 as NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson looks on. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber
WASHINGTON — Serbia is the latest nation to sign the Artemis Accords, joining the U.S.-led effort more than two years after signing on to China’s lunar base project.
In a July 16 ceremony at NASA Headquarters, Marko Đurić, Serbia’s minister of foreign affairs, signed the Accords. Serbia is the 69th country to sign the document, which outlines best practices for space exploration, and the 10th to do so in 2026.
In a statement about the signing, both Đurić and NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson emphasized the role of Serbian Americans in the Apollo program, including a group known as the “Serbian Seven.”
“Serbia’s connection to NASA reaches back to the Apollo program, when the work of Serbian engineers helped make some of humanity’s greatest achievements in space possible,” Anderson said.
