{"id":43692,"date":"2019-09-25T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T03:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43692"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T03:54:03","slug":"first-arab-set-for-iss-says-voyage-will-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43692","title":{"rendered":"First Emirati Set For ISS Says, Voyage Will Make \u2018History\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MOSCOW, Sept 25 (NNN-ARAB NEWS) &#8211; The Emirati astronaut, who will make history by becoming the first UAE&#8217;s Arab on the International Space Station said, he received support from around the world before his \u201cdream\u201d mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hazza Al-Mansoori, 35, is set to blast into space, accompanied by Russia\u2019s Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut, Jessica Meir, on board a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, on Wednesday (today).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mansoori, who will spend eight days on the ISS, will be the first Emirati astronaut on the orbiting laboratory, but not the first Muslim. Sultan bin Salman Al Saud is the <strong>first<\/strong> Arab and <strong>Muslim<\/strong> to fly into outer space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/%5Byyyy%5D\/%5Bmm%5D\/%5Bdd%5D\/6448221467167506.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><br> From left, UAE astronaut Hazza Al-Mansoori, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, and US astronaut Jessica Meir, members of the main crew to the International Space Station (ISS), pose during a news conference in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. (AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is really an honour and we are looking forward to make this mission successful and to come back with a lot of knowledge,\u201d the pilot told a pre-flight news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, the trip was a milestone for his country. &#8220;This achievement will be in history and it will be continued,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The dream has come true.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-ARAB NEWS <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Sept 25 (NNN-ARAB NEWS) &#8211; The Emirati astronaut, who will make history by becoming the first UAE&#8217;s Arab on the International Space Station said, he received support from around the world before his \u201cdream\u201d mission. Hazza Al-Mansoori, 35, is set to blast into space, accompanied by Russia\u2019s Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut, Jessica Meir, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209,286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}