Prof. Mark Sundahl, the director of C|M|LAW’s Global Space Law Center, recently attended a dinner at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, D.C. to meet with the head of the UAE Space Agency.  The dinner was a roundtable discussion with leading figures in the commercial space industry regarding the UAE’s ambitions in space.  The UAE intends to launch its Hope spacecraft to Mars in 2020 as a first step toward creating a permanent human settlement on Mars.