Hazza Al Mansoori
UAE astronaut Hazza Al Mansoori flew to the ISS on the Soyuz MS-15 mission in September, spending nearly eight days on the ISS before returning on Soyuz MS-12.

On the heels of the first flight of an Emirati in space, the United Arab Emirates’ space agency expects to soon expand its small corps of astronauts in anticipation of future missions in the next several years.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...