The Indian flag was handed over by Salem Humaid Al Marri, Director General of Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre at its headquarters in Dubai
The Indian Ambassador to the UAE, Sunjay Sudhir, received the Indian flag that was taken to the International Space Station (ISS) by Emirati astronaut Hazzaa Ali Al Mansoori in 2019. The Indian flag was handed over by Salem Humaid Al Marri, Director General of Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre at its headquarters in Dubai.
The Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi tweeted about the meeting with photos. The Embassy wrote, “Space can be new frontier for Strategic Partnership. Amb @sunjaysudhir met DG @MBRSpaceCentre HE Salem Almarri. Discussed space cooperation & received Indian tricolor carried to @ISS_Research by the 1st astronaut in Sep’19. #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav.”
Salem Al Marri said on Twitter, “Today, I had the pleasure of receiving HE Sanjay Sudhir, Ambassador of the Republic of India to the UAE, and HE Dr. Aman Puri, Consul General of India in Dubai, at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, and we toured the centre’s departments and introduced them to our most prominent projects… With India, we have great opportunities for cooperation in the space field and we will work to strengthen them.”
Hazzaa made history as the first Emirati in space, when he set off on an 8-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft on September 25, 2019 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the world’s first and largest operational space launch facility
The first Emirati astronaut, Major Hazzaa Ali Al Mansoori, carried the Indian flag to ISS during his maiden flight in September 2019.
Hazzaa made history as the first Emirati in space, when he set off on an 8-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft on September 25, 2019 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the world’s first and largest operational space launch facility. Hazzaa returned to Earth aboard a Soyuz-MS 12 on October 3, 2019.
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