First astronaut from UAE is set to fly to the International Space Station

A Russian-built Soyuz rocket sits on the launch pad on Sept. 23, 2019, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Denise Chow

A Russian cosmonaut and two astronauts — one from NASA and the other from the United Arab Emirates — are scheduled to launch Wednesday to theJessica Meir of NASA, Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and Hazza Ali Almansoori, one of only two astronauts in the nascent Emirati space program, are scheduled to lift off in a Russian Soyuz rocket at 9:57 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

From left, United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazza Ali Almansoori, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, and U.S. astronaut Jessica Meir pose before their final preflight practical examination at the Russian Space Training Center in Star City, outside Moscow on Aug. 30, 2019.Almansoori was a pilot in the UAE armed forces before he was selected for astronaut training in 2018.

MACH Will the Russians tell NASA how their holes on Space_Station occurred before the launch? ISS_Research RogueNASA NASAKennedy SpaceX BoeingSpace

MACH Ummm, NASA is not a country.......

MACH RS and CH are the only 2 countries can send humans into space. The premier bragging NASA has no similar capability but dreaming of a new $4.5B moonshot with the corruption king LMC that runs the pentagon's most corruptive F-35 program at near $1.0T and counting.

MACH check to see if anyone drilled holes in it

MACH So , a Russian an Arab and an American walk into a space capsule...lol

MACH I wonder how those suits hold up to sand, moving at the relative speed of sound.

MACH Faked like the moon landings and 9/11. There was no twin towers. conspiracytheories

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