00:00Three things that you have to focus on in your life.
00:06Your mindset, your body and your soul.
00:09I'm really glad to be here today and to participate in this session with the kids and to be in
00:15this role is really important.
00:17We are learning from different countries and agencies around the world what they are doing,
00:24what they did achieve in the past two or three decades and we learn from that.
00:31Here in UAE we started where the others already stopped and we continue that journey.
00:36So we are looking forward to be part of the bigger picture and to learn more and to train
00:44more.
00:45As astronauts we are looking forward to be part of Gateway in the future and we are already
00:51participating as a country to build the airlock for the Lunar Gateway.
00:56As astronauts we need to train and to understand how to conduct these type of missions because
01:02it's going to be new missions for us and we are really excited about these new programs.
01:09Here in UAE we are focusing now at Mohammed Barad Space Center to train and prepare astronauts.
01:15For the younger generation I would say we are injecting more of our like experience
01:21in the curriculum of education in the schools and that's really important because it's like
01:26a spark and planting a seed in their minds.
01:30It's possible, you can do it, you need to do X, Y and Z to achieve that goal and that's
01:35really important because from that they are going to continue and they are going to build
01:39up on that.
01:40We are always emphasizing STEM education because STEM education is important for human space
01:45flight in general I would say because to be an astronaut maybe if you need to have
01:50a background in aviation, engineering or technical or scientific background that's really crucial
01:56and important.
01:57NASA and the different agencies around the world they are now focusing and shifting from
02:02being in low Earth orbit to back to the moon and orbiting around the moon to make it as
02:08a new station.
02:09From there we can observe the impact of being away from Earth because living there for 30
02:17days it's really impactful and it's going to have a lot of challenges and that's the
02:21important thing because in the future we want to go to Mars and to reach that end goal we
02:26need to first to go the first step to go a little bit beyond International Space Station
02:31and to go to orbiting the lunar surface or the moon itself it's really important.
02:39NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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