According to Al Jazeera and others, Prime Minister Muhammad Bin Rashed Earl Maktoum of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced in February a plan to build a colony on Mars by 2117. As for the details of the plan, the officials were losing their mouths, but the content of the plan became a little clearer at the "Humans to Mars Summit".
Saeed Al Gergawi , a program director of the "Mars 2117 Project" at MBRSC (The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center) , the government space agency in Dubai , recently wrote the audience and reporters at the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington , DC "I believe the United Arab Emirates is at the forefront of a new era in space development" "literally, there is a new space development competition that will affect all humankind on the planet".
Prime Minister Muhammad Bin Rashid Earl Maktoum when the plan was announced at the World Government Summit in February this year's tweet
"In the next 100 years, we aim to develop science and technology, and passion for young people's knowledge, which is driven by this vision."
Al Gergawi explained the outlook of UAE such as "Plan to build a colony in cooperation with other private organizations" in a discussion meeting with representatives such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. It is unknown how these cooperative relationships progress in concrete terms, but it seems likely that NASA will be involved to some extent. In May 2016, each other while showing interest in Mars, to cooperate with the UAE in space exploration announced.
At that time, UAE's Director of Space Agency Director Khalifa Al Romaithi said, "UAE and the United States have cooperated for many years, there are economic, cultural and diplomatic ties," and "We, the UAE Space Agency is, Aeronautics to develop the happiness of mankind, space science and towards the peaceful exploration common goal of the universe, the USA and really pleased the opportunity to work with NASA ", NASA announcement.
As far as looking at the previously rendered images reported by USA Today et al., UAE colonies seem to be developing advanced infrastructure, but we have not yet announced formal models. As Al Gergawi emphasized at the event, the focus of the project at the moment is to make young people in the Middle East look forward to science and planetary exploration as a means of improving the region .
Al Gergawi said that "neighboring countries of UAE are in a bad situation." "There are more than 100 million young people in neighboring countries, but over 35% are unemployed," he mentioned about a wide area in the Middle East .
"I hope young people can take an active role in promoting global efforts to improve to Mars and other planets," Al Gergawi told the audience. I did not talk about anything concrete, but he seems to be preparing an educational attempt to motivate young people to be involved in space.
"Mars 2117 project will make a scientific team of Emirates and other countries push for exploration of manned Mars in the near future"
Before sending mankind to Mars, UAE is going to undertake a mission to the Middle East's first Mars. In 2020, in order to analyze the atmosphere of Mars, we will launch a probe called Hope. The information gathered in the mission will be useful to Mr. Al Gergawi and his team working to realize a magnificent vision.
It is a pity that we can not see the end of the project while we are alive, but it may be that the influence on the human body in Mars migration, which has raised concerns after 100 years, has also been resolved I do not know.
