The Space Settlement Challenge is seeking "brilliant minds" to explore and develop "new business models for living and working in space." Space futureWhile the UAE's space agency wasn't officially founded until 2014, that late start hasn't hindered the country's ambitions. In September last year, it unveiled renderings for its Mars Science City project, a $136 million simulation center designed to replicate a Martian base in the desert outside Dubai. An artist's rendering of the Mars Science City, slated to be built on the outskirts of Dubai. Raford said ideas submitted to the settlement challenge could eventually be used in the Mars Science City project and the UAE's wider space program.

Source: CNN February 15, 2018 13:52 UTC