The UAE has signed an agreement with the space agency NASA to send a six-month-old astronaut to a flying laboratory. The UAE is poised to become the 11th country to send a man off the planet after the United States, Russia, China and India.
The UAE has already launched a spacecraft to explore the asteroids. The name of the astronaut has not yet been revealed by the UAE.
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‘New space station for UAE. A new contract has been signed to send the first Arab astronaut to the International Space Station for a 180-day mission. The UAE will be the 11th country in space history. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the UAE, tweeted:
