Revealed: ISS mission launch time of UAE’s first astronaut

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Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/2HrkNch  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos  Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  The first Emirati astronaut, Hazza Al Mansouri, will be rocketed to the International Space Station (ISS) at 5.56pm on September 25 to make the UAE the 19th country to visit the space station, officials announced on Monday, exactly 30 days before the much-awaited launch.  #astronaut #UAE #Emirati

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00:00The first UAE astronaut will be launched to space on September 25, 2019.

00:09The launch will be at 5.56pm Dubai time.

00:12He will arrive after around six hours to the ISS.

00:16So at 12 midnight they will be arriving to the ISS and they will be docking and they

00:20will have to wait for another two hours for the hatch opening to happen.

00:23The hatch opening will happen at two in the morning and it will only happen after confirmation

00:27from the ground station team and from the other astronauts in the International Space

00:30Station that everything is safe and there is no leakage.

00:33And from that, Hazza al-Masouri and the US astronaut Jessica and Oleg from Russia will

00:40enter the ISS and they will start their scientific journey.

00:45Many of the missions worldwide, when they start their missions, they start with eight

00:49days, short mission.

00:51And I can tell you that Hazza's mission is very packed with scientific experiments, research,

00:56educational programs and some communication with the students here and the public here

01:00on Earth.

01:01The microgravity and the exposure to the radiation and the vacuum that is in the space

01:10environment or the harsh environment in space will definitely have an effect on the human

01:18body.

01:19But during the studies that will be conducted on Hazza al-Masouri in this mission and from

01:26the previous studies, there are different tests being done on astronauts pre, during

01:34and post the mission to come with results to have evidence on the effects.

01:42So basically there is a recovery time for astronauts after the missions.

01:49So the recovery may differ from one astronaut to another, but luckily all astronauts could

01:58recover after their missions.

02:06The International Space Station is a gateway for humanity for space exploration.

02:10Through Hazza, we will introduce to the people in the UAE, in the Arab region, people worldwide

02:15for the first time, to many people for the first time, the importance of these experiments,

02:19how it will make a great change for our future, how it's important to study our human body

02:25in different research because things that happen on ISS in a microgravity environment

02:30is different than what happens here on Earth.

02:32So it's very important for the scientific community to do research here on Earth and

02:36to do it again in space and see the differences and learn from it and go from there.

02:41From there we will have unique results.

02:44A unique test will be conducted on Hazza that will give us evidences on the studies that

02:52are always conducted on ISS.

02:55So here we will know exactly if the environment or the person environment affects the results

03:03that we get from the space or in microgravity in general.

03:08I would like to invite everyone to watch the launch and learn all the details of how hard

03:12it is and how complicated this launch is and wish Hazza al-Mansouri and the other crew

03:17the best of luck on a successful mission.

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