00:00This is it. Why do you have to do this to me?
00:23What's wrong with this thing?
01:00Earlier we witnessed the rollout of the Soyuz launch vehicle from the assembly building
01:05and it will be transported via this rail tracks to the launch site.
01:12Launch pad number one.
01:14The same launch site that Yuri Gagarin used to blast off the space onboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft
01:21to be the first man in space on April 12, 1961.
01:25Crowds have gathered in the area.
01:27There are members of the media, officials from the Mohammad Bin Rashid Space Center,
01:33even from Roscosmos and NASA are here at the moment
01:37waiting for the rail car to pass by.
01:45And this rail car is transporting the Soyuz launch vehicle.
01:57You are watching the rollout of the Soyuz launch vehicle.
02:27On the way to the launch pad.
02:29Launch pad number one.
02:31The same launch pad which Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin used
02:36when he launched to space onboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
02:43So just to give you a brief idea on the rocket.
02:47It's a three-stage rocket.
02:49The green part, that's the first stage.
02:53The central core and the four boosters.
02:57The second part is the second stage.
03:00And the white part is the nose fairing which encapsulates the Soyuz spacecraft
03:08which HASSA, Jessica and Russian commander Oleg Skripochka will use
03:13on their way to space on Wednesday.
03:17So what's happened is now the Soyuz after its assembly,
03:20the Soyuz rocket as well as the encapsulated Soyuz spacecraft
03:25have been rolled out of the assembly building,
03:28brought all the way here to Gagarin's start launch pad
03:32which is where Yuri Gagarin was launched from.
03:34And the rocket has been verticalized which means all of the,
03:39let's say the procedures to build up the rocket and encapsulate,
03:43everything has been done successfully.
03:45The rocket is ready now.
03:47They will be starting refueling
03:50and then once it's fueled, obviously,
03:52we are getting closer and closer to the launch day.
03:54For us to see the UAE flag everywhere here in Baikonur
03:58and to see the flag alongside the United States and Russian flags
04:03and the logo of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center on the rocket itself,
04:07this showcases that two or three years of hard work
04:10are coming to a very exciting conclusion very soon.
04:15Obviously the launch on the 25th is one event.
04:18We have a series of events happening for the next 10-15 days
04:21that involve the Hazza al-Mansouri and Sultan al-Niyadi
04:24all the way up to landing and what's happening after that.
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