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The UAE successfully put a probe in orbit around Mars
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10 February 2021, 3:22 am·2-min read
The United Arab EmiratesHope mission, its $200 million project to send a satellite into orbit around Mars, has been a success. It means that the UAE is the fifth body to reach Mars, after the US, Russia, the European Union and India.
Hope was launched last July from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, carried on the back of a Mitsubishi H-2A rocket. It has taken seven months to reach its destination, arriving shortly ahead of rival missions from both China and the US.
can say unequivocally that we re standing on john glenn s shoulders as bee pursue a journey to mars. a journey that would not be possible without his bravery and sel selfless dedication. i know that and countless other astronauts who had the privilege of following senator glenn into space can pinpoint his remarkable accomplishment as the first american to orbit earth as the seed of our aspirations. even in his 70s he continued to break barriers taking to space again in the space shuttle. i was so proud to see this american soar on the sts95 mission. just as with his first flight, he planted a seed that someday americans from all walks of life might experience space and the wonder of our planet from orbit and see it as a unified hold. kennedy space center director bob cabana, another marine,
navy ship or displayed overseas. in his case, deployed to a spaces station orbiting the earth every both of you your vital signs to compare the effect of space on similar bodies, if you will. can you share any information from what that process has been like? yeah, alex, a lot more than vital signs. there s ten different universities doing comprehensive experiments on scott and i, me being the control on the ground and him up in space to really examine the long-term effects of what happens when we keep somebody in space for a year, molecular and genetic changes in my brother compared to me. this is one of the steps we re going to need if we ever want to send people on a journey to mars. that s going to take a number of years to do that. up next, how mankind just got one giant step closer to being able to send people to mars.