UAE's Minister of Sports and Chairman of the UAE Space Agency Ahmed Belhoul Al Falasi speaks during a presentation of the UAE-built EMA Probe, a deployable payload for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), designed to make contact with the surface of asteroid 269 Justitia, at Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council on October 1, 2026. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP via Getty Images)