The International Space Station (ISS) has celebrated the arrival of Hazza Al Mansouri, the first Emirati and Arab astronaut, as part of a scientific team including Russian astronaut Oleg Scribushka and US astronaut Jessica Mir.
The International Space Station, in a new statistical report aired yesterday, said that with the arrival of this team, the number of visitors to 239 visitors from 19 countries from around the world.
According to the International Space Station, the United Arab Emirates officially became the first Arab country to send an astronaut to the International Space Station, while the United States topped the number of visitors to the station with a total of 151 astronauts, followed by Russia with 47 astronauts, Japan with nine astronauts, and Canada eight astronauts. Italy has five astronauts, France has four astronauts, Germany has three astronauts, and astronauts from Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Spain, Britain, Malaysia, South Africa and South Korea, as well as Hazza Al Mansouri, the first Emirati and Arab astronaut.
The International Space Station (ISS), built in 1998 under international cooperation led by the United States and Russia, is funded by Canada, Japan and 10 European countries.
The station is a laboratory for space research and experiments, used to test future space exploration systems and processes, and improves the quality of life on Earth by increasing scientific knowledge through extraterrestrial research.
The station, orbiting 390 kilometers from the surface of the planet, was launched to take the place and functions of the Russian space station «Mir», in order to prepare humans to spend long times in space, and conduct experiments outside the area of gravity.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large, 408-kilometer-long satellite that is fit for human life and has carried out hundreds of scientific, technical and research experiments that have enabled scientists and astronauts to make spectacular discoveries that were unreachable on Earth.
The station began receiving astronauts crews since the beginning of the century, specifically since November 2000, and the station includes an international crew of six astronauts most of the time, and astronauts spend most of their time in-depth scientific research in various scientific disciplines, physical, biological and earth sciences and space , With the aim of developing human scientific knowledge, and to come up with new discoveries that can only be reached in the absence of gravity.