{"id":180131,"date":"2024-01-09T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T21:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/uae-to-provide-airlock-for-gateway-humanitys-first-moon-orbiting-space-station"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T21:23:58","slug":"uae-to-provide-airlock-for-gateway-humanitys-first-moon-orbiting-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/uae-to-provide-airlock-for-gateway-humanitys-first-moon-orbiting-space-station","title":{"rendered":"UAE to Provide Airlock for Gateway, Humanity\u2019s First Moon Orbiting Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uae-to-provide-airlock-for-gateway-humanitys-first-moon-orbiting-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a major step towards returning humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-united-arab-emirates-announce-artemis-lunar-gateway-airlock\/\">recently announced<\/a> they will be providing the airlock for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/gateway\/\">NASA\u2019s Lunar Gateway<\/a>, which is the planned space station that will be in orbit around the Moon and responsible for ferrying future astronauts to and from the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p><em>Artist\u2019s rendition of the Lunar Gateway (left) and a potential future airlock provided by the UAE (right). (Credit: NASA)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States and the United Arab Emirates are marking a historic moment in our nations\u2019 collaboration in space, and the future of human space exploration,\u201d said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. \u201cWe are in a new era of exploration through Artemis \u2013 strengthened by the peaceful and international exploration of space. The UAE\u2019s provision of the airlock to Gateway will allow astronauts to conduct groundbreaking science in deep space and prepare to one day send humanity to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step towards returning humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently announced they will be providing the airlock for NASA\u2019s Lunar Gateway, which is the planned space station that will be in orbit around the Moon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}