HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, met today with His Highness Sheikh Hazza Ali Al Mansouri and Sultan Saif Al Neiadi, UAE's first astronauts. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces in 2017 to train and prepare a team of UAE astronauts and then send them to carry out various scientific missions in space.
During the meeting, His Highness the Crown Prince affirmed the great importance of the mission entrusted to UAE astronauts and the great hopes that they held as the first to be responsible for the UAE representation in the field of space travel for scientific purposes through the scheduled trip that will carry one of the Emirati pioneers to the International Space Station to conduct a series of experiments and researches. As this step represents a qualitative step in the beginning of an ambitious project in which the UAE seeks to achieve leadership in the field of space like other areas in which to work to reach the number one globally, wishing him success in their mission and the team of the Center In achieving the desired objectives of all projects on which they are based.
The meeting was attended by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the TRA, Talal Humaid Al-Bahlul, Secretary General of the Executive Council of Dubai, Abdullah Al Basti, and Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, General of the Center Yousef Hamad Al Shaibani, and a number of the Center's leaders.
During the meeting, Sheikh Mohammed briefed the participants on the stages of the UAE's astronauts program and the pilots' training at the Yuri Gagarin Center for Astronaut Training. The agreement was signed by the United Arab Emirates, represented by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center and the Russian Federation, Roscosmos, to send the first UAE astronaut to participate in scientific research in a Russian space mission to the International Space Station.
His Highness also briefed the staff of the Center on the developments of the Emirates National Space Program, which, in addition to the UAE's astronaut program, the Emirates Mars Exploration Project, "The Prospect of Hope" and the Mars 2117 Program, which aims to build the first human settlement on Mars in 100 years. Satellites in the UAE with UAE hands.