UAE adopts a national space policy
The competition heats up: The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates has adopted a national space policy for the Arab nation.
This push by the UAE to become a major player in space is being entirely led by, to quote the story at the link, the “Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.” His effort is a good thing, but in many ways a hollow gesture. The UAE does not yet have the people or the infrastructure for its own space program. What they have is a lot of oil money, which will allow them to buy those skills from others. This is what they are doing for their Mars probe that they hope to launch in 2020.
Whether the skills will then remain within the UAE remains questionable.
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The competition heats up: The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates has adopted a national space policy for the Arab nation.
This push by the UAE to become a major player in space is being entirely led by, to quote the story at the link, the “Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.” His effort is a good thing, but in many ways a hollow gesture. The UAE does not yet have the people or the infrastructure for its own space program. What they have is a lot of oil money, which will allow them to buy those skills from others. This is what they are doing for their Mars probe that they hope to launch in 2020.
Whether the skills will then remain within the UAE remains questionable.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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I think it is laudable. Unless it is some undercover way to supply rogue states with modern launch technology, it is yet another example of how the UAE tries to develop to a modern nation by inviting foreign investments in free trade, shipping, industry and now space flight. The UAE is a great example for the rest of the Arab world. You’d better not be an inborn woman or HBTQ there, but in many ways it is a great country. Especially compared to all of its neighbors. You see, this is the strength of a tyranny. Sometimes the tyrant is smart and benevolent. This is almost the ONLY good development in the Arab world in our time.