![]() She will orbit Earth for up to five days. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, will join the first all-civilian trip to space, SpaceX announced today. Please contact us for subscription options. Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. *Ahmed Asmar in Ankara contributed to this storyĪnadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. The UAE launched its astronaut program in 2017 to train and prepare a team of Emiratis to be sent on various scientific missions to space. He will celebrate and mark the fasting of the holy month of Ramadan in space which starts a few weeks later. "I would like to say thanks to everybody, my parents, my family, our leadership, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre for their trust, and everyone who trained us got us ready for this launch,” Al Neyadi said.īorn in 1981, Al Neyadi joined his country's armed forces and was sent to study communication engineering and IT. He became the fourth Arab astronaut who embarked on missions into space after Emirati Hazzaa Al Mansoori in 2019, Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan bin Salman in 1985 and Syrian astronaut Muhammed Faris in 1987. "Thank God, we made it to space," Al Neyadi spoke from inside the Dragon capsule once it entered orbit, according to the Emirati National news website. The mission launched on 5 October 2022 and transported four crew members to the International Space Station (ISS), docking there on 6 October 2022 at 21:01. The first attempt to launch them was called off Monday at the last minute because of a clogged filter in the engine ignition system. This is the sixth crew rotation mission using the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to the orbiting laboratory as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. They are expected to spend some six months on board the orbiting laboratory, carrying out science experiments and maintaining the two-decade-old station. The Crew-6 launch carried two NASA astronauts – Mission Commander Stephen Bowen and Pilot Warren Hoburg – along with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, who serves as mission specialists for a space station science expedition, according to NASA. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Kennedy Space Center shortly after midnight. ![]() SpaceX launched four astronauts for an extended monthslong stay. SpaceX and NASA on Thursday launched a crew of astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station.
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