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ASTRONAUTS from United Arab Emirates

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This page contains a list of the greatest Emirati Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in United Arab Emirates. This makes United Arab Emirates the birth place of the 50th most number of Astronauts behind Taiwan and Morocco.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Emirati Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Emirati Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Hazza Al Mansouri (1983 - )

With an HPI of 31.33, Hazza Al Mansouri is the most famous Emirati Astronaut.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.

Hazzaa AlMansoori (Arabic: هَزَّاع ٱلْمَنْصُوْرِي, romanized: Hazzāʿ Al-Manṣūrī, surname also spelled "Al Mansoori", full name Hazzaa Ali Abdan Khalfan Al Mansoori (هَزَّاع عَلِي عَبْدان خَلْفَان ٱلْمَنْصُوْرِي) is an Emirati astronaut and the first person from the United Arab Emirates in space. In 2019, he embarked on the UAE's first scientific mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission carried the slogan 'Zayed's Ambition', making the UAE the 19th country worldwide, and the first country in the Arab region, to travel to the ISS. He also became the back-up astronaut for Sultan Al Neyadi for the UAE's second mission to the ISS, which is the longest Arab space mission. Previously, he was the UAE's youngest F-16 fighter pilot. On 25 September 2019, he launched aboard the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft to the International Space Station, where he stayed for eight days. He landed safely in Kazakhstan, on 3 October 2019 aboard Soyuz MS-12 completing the United Arab Emirates first astronaut mission.He also became the first Arab Increment Lead for an ISS expedition during this mission. In his role as lead, Al Mansouri guided the ISS crew through every aspect of the mission.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1983 and 1983. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Hazza Al Mansouri.

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