2026-10-30 opened for the Accords' expansion track; the record's
Artemis storyline is hardware cadence only.
2026-10-19 Uzbekistan signed the Artemis Accords as the 77th signatory, per a Jeff Foust X relay of Uzbek foreign minister Bakhtiyor Saidov — signed together with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with framed cooperation covering NASA collaboration, specialist training, and space-technology transfer (x.com/jeff_foust). Debut thread: the record's Artemis storyline is hardware cadence only; the Accords' expansion track had no storyline. Watch: further signatories, follow-on US–Uzbekistan agreements, and whether Accords expansion draws wider wire pickup.