UAE: Mohammed Bin Rashid’s search for more astronauts


Issue 1094 - 13 Dec 2019 | 1 minute read

Federal Vice President and prime minister and Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MBR) launched a second round of the country’s astronaut training programme on 6 December, following the eight-day mission of Hazza Al-Mansoori to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this year and two years after the original astronaut programme was launched

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