UAE Astronauts Training With NASA

UAE astronauts Sultan AlNeyadi and Hazzaa AlMansoori.
Credit: Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center.
HOUSTON—Two months after the launch of its first-ever interplanetary science mission, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) now counts two astronauts in training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The astronauts are being trained for future medium- to long-duration missions aboard the International Space...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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