The celebration of all UAE citizens and residents of Flag Day this year is different from the previous celebrations of this occasion over the past years. Emirati space, Hazza Al Mansouri, the UAE flag on the International Space Station, during this year (2019), becoming the 19th flag among the founding and participating countries in the space station.
According to the International Space Station, the UAE officially became the first Arab country to send an astronaut to the International Space Station, registering the number 19 among the countries that arrived at the station, led by the United States of America with 151 astronauts, followed by Russia with 47 astronauts, and Japan With 9 astronauts, Canada 8 astronauts, Italy 5 astronauts, France 4 astronauts, Germany 3 astronauts, as well as astronauts from Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Spain, Britain, Malaysia, South Africa and South Korea, as well as Hazza Mansouri , The first astronaut M. Arati and Arabi.
Because the UAE flag, which flies 390 kilometers away from the planet, has the lead among all Arab and Middle Eastern flags in reaching the International Space Station, Hazza Al Mansouri was keen to dedicate it to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Commander Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, received by his colleague and astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi, at the Presidential Airport in Abu Dhabi, after completing the historic mission to reach the International Space Station, as Mansouri considered this flag the most precious souvenir of the homeland.