BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz rocket blasted off on Wednesday from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan carrying an Emirati who is set to make history as the first Arab on the International Space Station.
Writing on Twitter before the launch, the former pilot in the UAE armed forces said he was"filled with this indescribable feeling of glory and awe". "As a fighter pilot I already prayed in my aircraft," he said, explaining that he had experience of prayers at high speed. At a pre-flight conference, Meir, 42, said the crew communicated by using"Runglish" - a mixture of Russian and English.Russian Orthodox priests blessed the spacecraft ahead of the launch, in a traditional prayer service often held before Russian rocket launches.
The first Arab in outer space was Saudi Arabia's Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud, who flew on a US shuttle mission in 1985.
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