She said the United Arab Emirates Wednesday it plans to send an unmanned vehicle to Mars by 2021, in the first space flight carried out by an Arab country to another planet. According to a statement issued by the Government of the United Arab Emirates that will be concluded to establish a space agency overseeing the United Arab Emirates on the flight and the development of space technology industry in the state.

The statement did not mention the cost of the trip to the United Arab Emirates or to the design of the vehicle.

The head of state, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, "Our goal is to be the UAE within the major countries in the field of space science by 2021, we are able to provide new scientific contributions to humanity in the field of space science."

He added the President of the United Arab Emirates "probe new will be the first probe enters its Arab and Muslim worlds era of space exploration will be the launch of the probe team led by AED and our goal will be to build scientific capacity and knowledge Emirati Science in exploration of outer space and to provide scientific contributions and new knowledge of mankind in the exploration of celestial bodies far and put the state Emirates in the ranks of advanced countries in the field of space science in the coming years. "

For his part, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Emirati "The space agency, the UAE will oversee all of these activities and organized by the evolution of the sector and works to transfer the knowledge necessary to support the status of the UAE as a global player in this area and enhances the role of space technology in the economy National ".

The Mohammed bin Rashid, "in spite of all what is happening in the Arab world of tensions and conflicts we want to tell the world that the rights of the Arab whenever he had the right conditions it is capable of providing the achievements of civilized humanity, because this region is a region of civilizations which are able to provide input to new knowledge to humanity and as this region that belong to the industry and civilization of life.”

It is scheduled to arrive in the UAE probe to Mars in 2021 to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the state.

The trip will take 9 months cut the probe in which more than 60 million kilometers.

The UAE, which has a population of no more than about eight million people, most of them foreign workers lacked the scientific base and industrial enjoyed by countries that have a long tradition in the field of space exploration.

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