Watch UAE astronaut Hazaa Al Mansoori entered in International Space Station
UAE has sent its first astronaut Hazzaa Al Mansoori into Space. Hazzaa Al-Mansoori, went into space alongside Russia’s Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir with the help of a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in southern Kazakhstan.
Watch the video of Hazzaa Al-Mansoori with Russia’s Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir as they entered in International Space Station.
Sheikh Mohammed congratulated the people of UAE for this achievement.
Hazza Al Mansouri's entry to space sends a message to Arab youth that we can march forward, that we can keep pace with the rest of the world. Our next station is Mars through the Hope Probe, competently designed by our Emirati youth. pic.twitter.com/UfjzYPpEG2
— HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) September 25, 2019
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated UAE for this achievement and said, ” We take inspiration from this feat of a good and close friend for our own human space flight programme which will take an Indian into space on an Indian spacecraft by the year 2022.”
We take inspiration from this feat of a good and close friend for our own human space flight programme which will take an Indian into space on an Indian spacecraft by the year 2022!
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 25, 2019
Picture of Astronaut Hazzaa Al-Mansoori with Russia’s Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir.
Visitors to the International Space Station by Country: 239 Astronauts from 19 countries have visited the International Space Station till now.
- United States – 151 people
- Russia- 47 people
- Japan- 9 people
- Canada- 8 people
- Italy- 5 people
- France- 4 people
- Germany- 3 people
- Belgium- 1 people
- Netherlands- 1 people
- Sweden- 1 people
- Brazil- 1 people
- Denmark- 1 people
- Kazakhstan- 1 people
- Spain- 1 people
- Great Britain- 1 people
- Malaysia- 1 people
- South Africa- 1 people
- South Korea- 1 people
- UAE- 1 people
