Economics Minister Guy Parmelin, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year, has congratulated the US space agency NASA and its partners on the successful "Artemis II" mission around the Moon. Shortly beforehand, the astronauts landed in the Pacific on schedule. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Parmelin was proud of Switzerland's contribution, he said, writing on X on Saturday night that the Swiss research and innovation sector had contributed to this important step on the return to the Moon with its expertise and cutting-edge technology via the European Space Agency (ESA). NASA is not managing the "Artemis" programme alone. Many private space companies as well as the space programmes of Canada, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and ESA are involved. Swiss companies contributed components to ESA's service module: the drive motors for aligning the solar panels and the secondary structure come from Beyond Gravity in Emmen, canton Lucerne. Apco ...
