Comments on: UAE and Algeria sign space accord https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/uae-and-algeria-sign-space-accord/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 06:07:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: D.K. Williams https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/uae-and-algeria-sign-space-accord/#comment-980370 Sat, 29 Apr 2017 06:07:25 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=45363#comment-980370 Hmm. I’m thinking of promulgating a space accord regarding human exploration of Pluto. And if you sign in the next ten minutes, I’ll throw in Charon. Just pay separate handling and processing.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/uae-and-algeria-sign-space-accord/#comment-980138 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:41:57 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=45363#comment-980138 In reply to Tom Billings.

Tom Billings: Bingo! I had forgotten about the French launch site in Algeria. This is exactly why this agreement was signed.

]]> By: Tom Billings https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/uae-and-algeria-sign-space-accord/#comment-980135 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:29:45 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=45363#comment-980135 UAE has lotsa money, and Algeria has lotsa land to test rockets in. In fact, before the Kourou facility opened there was a French test center in Algeria from 1947-67, named Hammaguir. The UAE might want to reopen that, rather than flinging rockets around in the Persian Gulf.

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