Latest astronaut from UAE getting used to space

The second astronaut from the United Arab Emirates continues to be adjusting to life off the planet, after rocketing to the Worldwide Area Station final week.

“I am nonetheless coping. I am nonetheless studying,” Sultan al-Neyadi stated Tuesday, however added that he hopes to enhance within the coming days.

He is the second UAE astronaut to fly in space and the primary from the Arab world to be assigned to a protracted spaceflight—the others stayed for a couple of week. He’ll be up there till September.

Al-Neyadi assured Dubai’s ruler in a video name Tuesday that he and the remainder of his crew are in good health. However he joked that the small plush astronaut toy that he took up could also be coping higher with microgravity than he’s.

“I’m grateful to God you could have reached the Worldwide Area Station and thank God to your security,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who additionally serves because the nation’s prime minister and vice chairman, stated from the space middle named after him.

SpaceX launched al-Neyadi, a Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts on their six-month mission final Thursday.

The primary UAE astronaut, Hazzaa al-Mansoori took half in Tuesday’s temporary video chat from Dubai. Al-Neyadi’s astronaut toy, nicknamed Suhail, Arabic for the sensible star Canopus, additionally accompanied al-Mansoori on his 2019 space station mission.

“Hopefully, folks will observe within the footstep of my brother Hazzaa and my footsteps,” al-Neyadi stated, the flags for the UAE and its space center hanging behind him. “That is what we hope for.”

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