UAE eyes new frontiers with law to regulate space tourism, mining

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The United Arab Emirates, which sent its first astronaut into space this year and has plans to launch a probe to Mars, is looking at other new frontiers -- space tourism and mining. But first, says the chief of the Emirates Space Agency, there needs to be regulation. Within a few months the UAE will enact its first space law, he said, designed to attract investment and regulate the activities and services of companies operating in the country. "It was approved by the government and now is in its final stage of issuing," the space agency's director-general Mohammed al-Ahbabi told AFP. The UAE, whose colossal skyscrapers and mega-pro...

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