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UAE sends astronauts on 6-month mission to Space Station


Officials say the United Arab Emirates has purchased a seat on a SpaceX rocket for a Saudi astronaut to travel to the International Space Station for six months. space.

UAE bought seats on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket through a private company based in Houston, Axiomatic space, a space tourism operator that has been working on leading industry commercialization. The mission is scheduled to launch next year from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

This will be the second time the UAE has sent an astronaut into space. In 2019, Major General Hazzaa al-Mansoori spent an 8-day mission aboard the International Space Station. The UAE statement did not identify the astronaut selected for the 2023 mission.

The statement also did not say how much the country paid for the prized seat on a rocket built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Axiom’s fares for wealthy citizens who paid to get to the International Space Station earlier this month are $55 million (about 420 crore) per rocket ride and accommodation.

Friday’s announcement is part of a series of activities in the UAE’s space program. Last year, the UAE sent its satellite Amal, or Hope, into orbit around Mars, a first for the Arab world. In 2024, the country hopes to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon.

The UAE has also set an ambitious goal of building a human colony on Mars by 2117.




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