The Race To Space

The Race to Space: The Story Behind the Mohammed bin Rashind Space Centre, the Home of the UAE National Space Programme provides a details yet simple history of space exploration in the UAE and the wider Arab world. The book gives a backstory ancient astronomers from this region and their discoveries, while also exploring modern-day achievements in space science and travel. From MBRSC'S first satelite to the Mars Hope Probe, the UAE Astronauts Programme and the plan to build a city on Mars by 2117, the book is a one of kind resource on the history of the space centre as well as of the UAE's National Space Programme.