UAE’s Moon Mission
- Recently, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has decided to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024.
- The rover would be named Rashid after Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, one of the original founding rulers of the UAE.
- Aim: To explore the surface of the moon in areas that have not been explored previously by human missions such as NASA’s Apollo.
- According Article 254(2)
- It enables a State government to pass a law, on any subject in the Concurrent List that may contradict a Central law, provided it gets the President’s assent.
- However, the Parliament is not barred from enacting at any time any law with respect to the same matter including a law adding to, amending, varying or repealing the law so made by the Legislature of the State.
