Astronaut

UAE mobile networks change name to honour Emirati astronaut Hazzaa AlMansoori

Written by on 3 October 2019

UAE mobile networks change name to honour Emirati astronaut Hazzaa AlMansoori UAE’s telecom companies on Thursday changed their network names to ‘UAEAstro’ to welcome the arrival of first Emirati astronaut Hazzaa AlMansoori from International Space Station (ISS). AlMansoori will be returning on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft along with Nasa astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin. […]

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UAE to visit space!

Written by on 19 February 2019

The UAE’s first astronaut is set to launch into space this September State-owned news agency Sputnik says that a date for the mission to space has been set for September 25 and that the Emirati astronaut, will blast off for the International Space Station as part of a three-man mission. The astronaut will spend eight […]

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