The UAE plans to enter the record books – again! A new space agency will be created to help supervise the UAE’s mission to send an unmanned spaceship to Mars in what will be the very first Arab mission to space.
The probe’s nine-month journey, which stretches more than 60 million kilometers, will coincide with the UAE’s 50th Anniversary.
“Our region is a region of civilisation. Our destiny is, once again, to explore, to create, to build and to civilize,” he added.
The new mission is expected to contribute to the country’s human capital through an intellectual and scientific discussion with international partners and organizations around the world.
The Red Planet project will be supervision by the UAE space agency and is expected to contribute extensively to the UAE’s growing economy, placing the UAE among the top countries in aerospace development – one of only nine countries in the world to have space programs with plans to explore Mars.