Comments on: The UAE wants to go to Mars https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-uae-wants-to-go-to-mars/ Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:17:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-uae-wants-to-go-to-mars/#comment-175565 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:17:01 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=29648#comment-175565 Isn’t the UAE were Branson is building a new spaceport on their dime?

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-uae-wants-to-go-to-mars/#comment-175493 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:29:03 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=29648#comment-175493 The way I read that article, they expect to have another country build the satellite (“international partners”) from technology that this other country has (“knowledge transfer”). I saw nothing that suggests that this is well thought out, such as what science they expect to contribute — what experiments they plan to have on their satellite — to “prove that we are capable of delivering new scientific contributions to humanity.” I guess that Bolden failed to demonstrate their historic contributions to science after all ( http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/ ).

They talk big: “We aim for the UAE to be among the top countries in the field of aerospace by 2021.” That would require quite a chunk of “knowledge transfer,” considering the state of their aerospace industry today.

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