“It will be an Emirati-made lunar rover that will land on the surface of the moon in 2024 in areas that have not been explored previously by human missions.”
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A top official in the United Arab Emirates said Tuesday his country plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024.
“It will be an Emirati-made lunar rover that will land on the surface of the moon in 2024 in areas that have not been explored previously by human missions,” Sheikh Mohammed wrote on Twitter. He did not elaborate on the location that the UAE planned to explore, nor how they would launch the rover into space.
If successful in 2024, the UAE could become the fourth nation on the Earth to land a spacecraft on the moon, after the U.S., the Soviet Union and China. India has tried and failed to land a spacecraft, as has Israel and Japan.
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