{"id":258231,"date":"2019-09-25T13:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=258231"},"modified":"2019-09-25T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:11:16","slug":"uae-astronaut-to-be-first-arab-aboard-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-astronaut-to-be-first-arab-aboard-iss\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE astronaut to be first Arab aboard ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The first United Arab Emirates astronaut has gone into space this Wednesday (25). <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-astronaut-to-go-on-mission\/\">Hazza Al- Mansoori<\/a> will also be the first Arab aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-15 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Al-Mansoori, American NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka took flight a few minutes before 8 pm (local time) bound to the ISS. The trio is supposed to land after a six-hour flight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_258222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258222\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/033_6021214_5d8b7c7cd24ca.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-258222\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/033_6021214_5d8b7c7cd24ca-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/033_6021214_5d8b7c7cd24ca-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/033_6021214_5d8b7c7cd24ca.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Launch of the Russian spacecraft Soyus MS-15 in Kazakhstan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI will try to remember each second of the launch itself,\u201d Al-Mansoori said during a news conference earlier this month. \u201cBecause it&#8217;ll be really very important for me to share it with everyone and my country, the entire world and the Arab region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 35-year-old father of four, Al-Mansoori is the third Arab astronaut to go into space. The first one was Saudi prince <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/embraer-showed-in-saudi-aviation-show\/\">Sultan Bin Salman<\/a>, who participated in the Discovery space shuttle mission in 1985. Second one was Syrian astronaut Muhammad Faris, who participated in a Syrian-Soviet mission in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mansoori will conduct a series of experiments on the ISS, including one studying oil emulsification in a weightless environment, as well as a second to germinate a palm date seed native to the country. The astronaut will come back to Earth on October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the spacecraft launching on the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Soyuz-FG launches Soyuz MS-15\" width=\"755\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bqxd106wN6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-258222\">Sergey Mamontov\/Sputnik\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian spacecraft Soyus MS-15 was launched this Wednesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Hazza Al-Mansoori will arrive at the International Space Station after a six-hour flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":258220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3356,11534,11535,11525,3357,11536,11533,10246,11537,9579],"class_list":{"0":"post-258231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-innovation","8":"tag-astronaut","9":"tag-baixokur-cosmodrome","10":"tag-hazza-al-mansoori-en","11":"tag-hazza-al-mansoori","12":"tag-international-space-station","13":"tag-iss-en","14":"tag-kazakhstan","15":"tag-russia-en","16":"tag-soyuz-ms-15-en","17":"tag-uae-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Russian spacecraft Soyus MS-15 was launched this Wednesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 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