Work has begun on the historic Lunar Gateway project, here’s all you need to know
The UAE is maing history again, and our excitement’s out-of-the-world!
Work has begun on the historic Lunar Gateway project, which will eventually lead to an Emirati astronaut taking part in a Moon mission for the first time.
This week, we started the work on the Gateway Lunar Space Station after our leadership announced the UAE's participation in the project.
We had several meetings with the Gateway team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to coordinate the efforts, and our team at MBRSC is starting to… pic.twitter.com/9i9oS8hmh2— Salem AlMarri سالم حميد المري (@Salem_HAlMarri) January 21, 2024
Taking to X, Director General of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), Salem Al Marri announced that collaboration with NASA officials is well underway.
The MBRSC is providing Gateway’s Crew and Science Airlock, which will allow transfers to and from the habitable environment of Gateway and the vacuum of space, which will support broader science in the deep space environment, as well as Gateway maintenance.
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MBRSC will also provide engineering support for the life of the lunar space station.
The lunar space station will be a staging-post for NASA’s future Moon missions under their Artemis programme, which is the most diverse and broad coalition of nations in human exploration in deep space.
In collaboration with the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), ESA (European Space Agency), JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and MBRSC, NASA will return humans to the lunar surface for scientific discovery and chart a path for the first human missions to Mars.
This latest cooperation on Gateway builds on NASA’s and UAE’s previous human spaceflight collaborations.
The UAE currently has two additional astronaut candidates in training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA has also worked with UAE on Mars research and human research and analog studies to support mutual exploration priorities.
Can’t wait!
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