The Department of Science and Innovation signed a joint statement, confirming their collaboration and partnership for deep-space missions with the USA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administratio.
A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa's semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the Moon and beyond, space agency officials said on Tuesday at a ground-breaking ceremony in the tiny village of Matjiesfontein.