UAE names 2 new astronauts, including woman
The two had been selected among more than 4,000 applicants in the UAE [AFP] Date of publication: 10 April, 2021 Share this page:
The United Arab Emirates named the next two astronauts in its space program Saturday, including the country s first female astronaut.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai who also serves as the autocratically ruled country s prime minister and vice president, named the two astronauts on Twitter.
He identified Noura al-Matroushi as the UAE s first female astronaut, with her male counterpart as Mohammed al-Mulla.
A later government promotional video described al-Matroushi, born in 1993, as an engineer at the Abu Dhabi-based National Petroleum Construction Co.
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