2019.09.28 14:40 GMT+8

First UAE astronaut takes off for the International Space Station

Updated 2019.09.28 14:40 GMT+8
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The United Arab Emirates sent its first astronaut to space on Wednesday. Hazza Ali Almansoori was an Emirati F-16 pilot before he was selected for astronaut training in 2018. The Soyuz spacecraft carrying him and two other astronauts blasted off to the International Space Station from a Russian spaceport in Kazakhstan.

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