Applications to train the first four Emirati astronauts are open. Joining the International Space Station is a prime goal.
The UAE Astronaut Program opens to applications from men and women of Emirates nationality, graduates and mastering Arabic and English. The first UAE space program has just been launched with the aim of training four astronauts.
These four Emirati astronauts will be selected at the end of 2018. Training will run from 2019 to 2021. They will be prepared to join the International Space Station, if necessary. However, no date has been specified for the ISS.
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"For the first time, an Emirati will join the crew of the space station, which will further strengthen the position of the United Arab Emirates among the first space nations in the world," reads the UAE Astronaut Program website.
في يوم من أيامنا الوطنية التي سيخلدها تاريخنا.. نعلن عن أول برنامج لاختيار وإعداد وارسال أول 4 رواد فضاء إماراتيين في مهمات فضائية .. سيكسر أبناء الامارات حاجزاً جديداً في طموحهم الذي لن تحدّه سماء.. أو فضاء.. ولا توجد قوة تقف أمام إرادة شعب يحب المستحيل pic.twitter.com/k6vWRqoG96— HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) 6 décembre 2017
The space ambitions of this federal state in the Middle East, which includes several emirates such as Dubai, are not new and go beyond the International Space Station.
The planet Mars is targeted with the sending of a probe that will arrive there in 2021, and until the colonization of the Red Planet by 2117 as part of an international collaboration.
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The United Arab Emirates space agency, however, is very young. It was established in July 2014, with the securing of funds amounting to $ 5.2 billion. It works with the support of several space agencies around the world.
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