Interest in space is surging, especially in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, says Kevin O’Connell, Trump’s former Director of Space Commerce.
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00:00Well, I was going to say we are sitting here in the Middle East where there has been a
00:03push into the space programs.
00:06How ambitious has this region been from what you've discovered?
00:09Oh, I think it's been very ambitious.
00:11We're sitting here in Dubai and the Emirates have done a tremendous job with their plans
00:16for Martian exploration.
00:18They have a satellite that's actually surveying Mars as we speak.
00:24They've done it very conscientious of the need to someday explore Mars and to basically
00:31land people on Mars.
00:32We have those same aims as well.
00:35We see interest in Riyadh, obviously, and now growing a space capability.
00:39And so we see you don't have to be a big country anymore to do this.
00:44I like to use the Luxembourg example, for example.
00:47There is a playful joke in Luxembourg that we occupy more space in space than we occupy
00:52here on Earth.