NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ESA (European Space Agency) Director General Josef Aschbacher signed two agreements Wednesday at the ESA Council meeting in Noordwijk, Netherlands, further advancing the space agencies’ cooperation on Earth science and Artemis missions. NASA “With these two agreements, NASA and ESA are strengthening the relationship on two of our agencies’ primary mission areas: Artemis and Earth science,” said Nelson. “ESA’s Lunar Pathfinder mission is critical to advancing the communications infrastructure needed at the Moon for a long-term human presence. And with the Unit…