The United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in collaboration with the UAE Space Agency and the university’s National Space Science and Technology Centre (NSSTC) organized a “Space Innovation Day”, which included a number of activities, workshops and educational lectures in the space science field, that aimed to provide the basics to be a “Rocket Scientist”, in a way that can be easily-understood by the students, participants and visitors.

The Space Innovation Day also included social discussions on the design aspects of space, which were attended by an international experts and researchers in the space science field, to explain some of the scientific concepts to UAEU researchers and students.