The United Arab Emerites Take Natural Resources War Into Outer Space!

The United Arab Emerites has decided to start their own space program to send Middle Easterners to the Red Planet.  They want to diversify their economy by going to the Red Planet to get more natural resources which puts them in competition with the US, Russia, and India.  They predict that their oil supply will run out within 50 years.

The United Arab Emerites wants to go into space so they can go the Red Planet and land people there.  First they are going to send a probe.  They want to orbit Mars for 4 years with a satellite and accomplish this by 2021.

With these different countries, some countries will see this as both competition and an interest in their national security.  

The United Arab Emerites is also investing in higher education for their own citizens so they can develop their own engineers and scientists for their project of space travel.  

This is going to mean that more countries are going to be out in space and they will have to decide their alliances in outer space.  More likely the United States will ally themselves with Russia, Scotland, Europe and Germany...and Asia.  They will not ally themselves with the UAE because they will not see it in their national security interests.  The UAE and the US and other countries mentioned above will both be in competition for outer space and will probably end up arguing about it.  They will probably also end up more than likely fighting over the Red Planet...also known as Mars.  One of the possible natural resources of Mars is hydrogen, also known as H2O or just hydrogen by itself.  Just like the future wars will be fought over H2O and hydrogen on earth, they will also fight over the same things in outer space.  So they will need lots of scientists and engineers and other professions to guard their space programs.