The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has just announced its latest astronaut, Hazza Al Mansouri, who will be the first Emirati to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). Al Mansouri is an F-16 pilot who has been training for this mission since 2017. He will be accompanied by two other astronauts from Russia and the United States to the ISS in September 2019. This will be an historic journey that will mark the UAE’s entry into the space exploration community. Al Mansouri will be conducting various scientific experiments while in space and will be a source of inspiration for future generations of Emiratis.

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source: Phys.org