Breaking Barriers: The First UAE Long-Duration Astronaut Aboard SpaceX’s Endeavour

The Crew-6 mission will launch on February 26 with four astronauts on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, dubbed Endeavour, is the sixth crew rotation mission with astronauts using the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to the orbiting laboratory. The launch is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which will carry two Americans, one Arab, and a Russian astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-6 mission includes an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who will become the second UAE astronaut to stay at the ISS. The … Continue reading Breaking Barriers: The First UAE Long-Duration Astronaut Aboard SpaceX’s Endeavour