{"id":26837,"date":"2016-06-13T21:49:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T04:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/u-s-and-uae-agree-to-collaborate-on-outer-space-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:14:52","slug":"u-s-and-uae-agree-to-collaborate-on-outer-space-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/u-s-and-uae-agree-to-collaborate-on-outer-space-mars","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and UAE Agree to Collaborate on Outer Space, Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-and-uae-agree-to-collaborate-on-outer-space-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very cool.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/nasas-journey-to-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-uae-sign-significant-outer-space-aeronautics-cooperation-agreement\/\">statement<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/nasa-israel-space-agency-sign-agreement-expand-space-cooperation-peaceful-use-2140798\">agreement<\/a>, it included a formal \u201cImplementing Arrangement\u201d that outlines Mars exploration as the first field of cooperation between the agencies and establishes a steering committee to identify areas of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong> was contacted for further comment clarifying the nature of the UAE agreement, but had not responded at the time of this writing. The agreement also entails working as a team on education, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-technologies.net\/\">technology<\/a>, safety and mission assurance as well as aeronautics and other areas in which the countries can potentially benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the two countries will aim to collaborate on education and public outreach programs and joint workshops, with the goal of facilitating the exchange of scientific data, scientists, engineers, and views and experiences on relevant regulatory frameworks and standards.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bsccomment.com\/2016\/06\/14\/u-s-and-uae-agree-to-collaborate-on-outer-space-mars.html\">http:\/\/bsccomment.com\/2016\/06\/14\/u-s-and-uae-agree-to-collab...-mars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very cool. According to NASA\u2019s statement on the agreement, it included a formal \u201cImplementing Arrangement\u201d that outlines Mars exploration as the first field of cooperation between the agencies and establishes a steering committee to identify areas of mutual interest. NASA was contacted for further comment clarifying the nature of the UAE agreement, but had not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26837","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61516,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26837\/revisions\/61516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}