{"id":212357,"date":"2019-04-12T19:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=212357"},"modified":"2019-04-15T19:36:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T22:36:37","slug":"uae-astronaut-to-go-on-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-astronaut-to-go-on-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE astronaut to go on mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai \u2013 The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai, the UAE announced that Hazza Al Mansoori (<em>pictured, on the left<\/em>) has been selected as the national astronaut that will travel to the International Space Station, with Sultan Al Neyadi (<em>on the right<\/em>) as his backup, <em>Emirates News Agency (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wam.org.ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAM<\/a>) <\/em>reported this Friday (12).<\/p>\n<p>Both are training at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia. Mansoori will participate in an eight-day mission to the Space Station aboard a Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft on 25 September. The launch will be from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. He will be the first Arab to travel to the station.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>WAM<\/em>, Mansouri will undertake scientific experiments. Mansoori is a fighter plane pilot while Neyadi is an engineer with a PhD in information technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda &amp; Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-212353\">WAM<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot Hazza Al Mansoori has been picked to join a trip to the International Space Station, with engineer Sultan Al Neyadi as his backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":212353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[139,5704,3357,3045,29025,3351,8155,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-212357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-innovation","8":"tag-dubai","9":"tag-exploration","10":"tag-international-space-station","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-russia-en-2","13":"tag-soyuz","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-uae"},"wps_subtitle":"Pilot Hazza Al Mansoori has been picked to join a trip to the International Space Station, with engineer Sultan Al Neyadi as his backup. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}