UAE’s Nora Al Matrooshi to Graduate From NASA Astronaut Training Next Year
The first female Emirati trainee astronaut is set to graduate from a Nasa programme early next year.
It means she’ll become eligible to join US-led missions to space.
Nora Al Matrooshi and her colleague Mohammed Al Mulla have been training at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, since January last year.
They are the UAE’s latest trainee astronauts who will follow in the footsteps of Hazza Al Mansouri, the first Emirati in space, and Sultan Al Neyadi, who is in the middle of the Arab world’s longest space mission aboard the International Space Station.
“As part of Nasa’s 2021 astronaut candidate class training programme, Emirati astronauts Nora Al Mastrooshi and Mohammed Al Mulla recently completed a series of rigorous training exercises in the USA,” a Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre representative said on Friday.
“They are set to graduate in early 2024 as flight-eligible astronauts.”
