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Hazzaa had flown to the ISS last Wednesday.

Published: Thu 3 Oct 2019, 4:34 PM

Updated: Thu 3 Oct 2019, 6:36 PM

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Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, on Wednesday shared a video of UAE's first astronaut Hazzaa AlMansoori landing on Earth with a short message: Welcome back to earth.

Hazzaa AlMansoori, the UAE's first astronaut to have visited space and the International Space Station, landed on Earth after an eight-day journey. He had flown to the ISS last Wednesday on board the Soyuz MS-12 mission, S61 Expedition.

AlMansoori, father of four and a former military fighter jet pilot, rocketed off at 5.57pm (UAE time) on September 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome's Gagarin Launch Pad.



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