An exceptional, surprisingly interactive experience, experienced by the fans of the first days of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, and the audience of children was on a date with a distinguished meeting that brought them together with two inspiring personalities, Emirati space pioneers Hazaa Al Mansouri and Sultan Al Neyadi, who explained to the children the details of their experience and the preparations that preceded it, and then the challenges that I presented it and how to overcome it. Al-Mansouri and Al-Neyadi took the initiative to invite the children to take pictures and enjoy their special signatures on books and pictures chosen by the children who stood in a long line waiting to meet the Emirati astronauts.
Sultan Al Neyadi expressed to «Emirates Today», his happiness with this new hosting this year, saying: “We lived beautiful moments today with the attendees, in which we prepared beautiful and difficult stages and moments that were reviewed by Hazza Al Mansoori from training to launch and landing,” noting “We were pleased with the intensive presence and questions that It related to the stages of preparation, training and difficulties, as well as future tasks that will be prepared for later. This is something that can devote a kind of interaction and broaden the students ’awareness in the future and provide their knowledge, and more importantly prepare them for the greatest challenge experiences, which is the experience of space.”
As for the Emirati astronaut Hazza Al Mansoori, who after the plenary session moved to sign gifts and take pictures with the children, he told «Emirates Today»: «A mixed feeling of pride, pride and love, which Emirati children in general have overwhelmed me with since I returned home. And here they are expressing this time not only their pride, but their unlimited cognitive curiosity with which they see this excitement-filled experience for them, so their questions came (strange strange), because although we missed it as adults, it remained a great source of inspiration for us », continuing« Today I shared with them the scientific experiences and strange things that happened to me, as well as the smallest details that related to the mechanisms of movement and the ways of food and sleep, and even to tie the shoes during the trip. Noting, “It is very important that we share the future generations with our experiences, inspire them and satisfy their curiosity and their passion for discovery and challenge that makes them more tenacious. With their dreams .
Sultan Al Neyadi:
• “We were pleased with the intensive presence and questions related to the stages of preparation, training, difficulties and future tasks.”
Hazaa Al-Mansoori:
• “It is important that we share our experiences with future generations, and inspire them and satisfy their curiosity and passion for exploration and challenge.”
• An exceptional, surprising, interactive experience that the festival's first audience experienced, and the children's audience was on a date with Hazza Al-Mansouri and Sultan Al-Neyadi.
"Proud of you"
At a time when everyone raced towards the session of the astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri, a few students whom Emirates Today met coincidentally in the entrance hall expressed great disappointment that all of them suffered after the astronauts session could not be attended, as they pointed to their hope to meet Hazaa Al Mansouri and direct A message that their Emirati friend (Muzna) had prepared for Al-Mansouri and Al-Nadi, and it read: “We are proud hands in you, and we have the honor that you raised our head”, adding, “We were in the desert and reached space.”