Dubai: On Tuesday, UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, who is serving the longest Arab space mission on the International Space Station (ISS), disclosed a crucial duty he performs there: battling microbial hitchhikers in orbit. Al Neyadi, the flight engineer for Expedition 69, said in a social media post that the International Space Station receives millions […]
Dubai: Famous European cartoon character Tintin has finally traveled to space, courtesy to UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi. Tintin’s fictitious exploits in the early 1950s let millions of children visualize travels to space and the Moon. Al Neyadi, who is now completing the longest Arab space mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), posted a […]
This day in history we feature the Skylab. The United States’ first space station, launched by NASA on this day in 1973. Trivia – Skylab Skylab was occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4. Major operations […]
DUBAI: French astronaut Thomas Pesquet took a photo of the Expo 2020 Dubai site from the International Space Station (ISS), during his 200-day mission which launched from Florida, USA. During a Q&A session which France Pavilion organised at the Expo 2020 Dubai, Pesquet responded to a number of questions from growing food in zero gravity […]
Orbital Assembly Corporation is the worlds first large scale space construction company, recently announced new details about its ambitious plan to build a hotel above the Earth’s atmosphere. The Gateway Foundation first proposed this concept in 2012, and the California company later established OAC to realize its dream of building the first commercial hotel in […]
