UAE’s space journey: From desert dunes to Mars and beyond ...United Arab Emirates

Dubai: It was February 1976 and the UAE was barely five years old. With his sights set at the stars, the UAE’s founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, held a historic meeting in the capital with three Apollo astronauts. This meeting was to plant the seeds for the country’s ambitious space exploration programme. . Sheikh Zayed met American astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt — crew of Apollo 17 — and renowned Egyptian-American space scientist and geologist Dr. Farouq El Baz. Sheikh Zayed was presented with a model of the US Space Shuttle, which was five years away from its first mission. He was also given a piece of the Moon r

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