Hazza Al Mansouri

Hazza Al Mansouri

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hazza Al Mansouri has received more than 433,824 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hazza Al Mansouri is the 491st most popular astronaut (down from 454th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from United Arab Emirates (down from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Emirati Astronaut.