After Russia’s exit from the Lunar Gateway, NASA has found a new partner in UAE -
Relations between NASA and Russia's state-owned space corporation were fairly robust five years ago when the two parties signed a joint statement that discussed partnering on the development of a space station orbiting the Moon, called the Lunar Gateway. At the time, Russia's Roscosmos was expected to provide an airlock for the facility.
"In our view, the Lunar Gateway in its current form is too US-centric, so to speak," said then-Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin."Russia is likely to refrain from participating in it on a large scale." At the time, Rogozin also expressed disdain for the"Artemis Accords" created by NASA, which established a set of principles to guide cooperation among nations participating in the agency’s 21st-century lunar exploration plans.
While Russia was drifting away from NASA, nearly two dozen countries have signed multilateral agreements to join NASA's Artemis Accords. One of the founding member nations, the United Arab Emirates, is looking to take its participation further. On Tuesday, The National reported that the UAE is in discussions with NASA to provide an airlock for the Lunar Gateway. The small Middle Eastern nation has been working with Boeing on designs.
The Islamic nation, which is smaller in area than the US state of Maine, has a population of just about 9 million people. However, it has expressed an outsize interest in space exploration. In June 2020, through a partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder, the UAE's space program sent the"Hope" probe to Mars to study the red planet's atmosphere.
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