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00:00I'm really ready for this mission.
00:23We finished our final exam, so we are ready.
00:28From the preparation we got in Star City and in different agencies around the world
00:33for our mission.
00:38I feel really proud to have this score, an excellent in our exam, as a crew, because
00:44our score is like a whole crew, it's not like individuals for the exam itself.
00:49And my part as a port engineer in Russia, or flight engineer number two, we have a checklist,
00:57procedures we have to conduct through different phases of the flight itself.
01:02And also there is a different task for us as a whole crew, they call it crew resource
01:08management.
01:09So we have to communicate with each other, check each other's health status, and to help
01:16each other through the whole flight.
01:18So definitely we are working as one group on board the Soyuz, to take our Soyuz to the
01:28International Space Station within the calculated time, which is six hours for our trip.
01:39There's a lot of differences, but they are doing the same idea eventually.
01:48It's different machines, but we are conducting the same procedures, or the checklist.
01:54So thanks for my previous job as a pilot, it gave me a lot of advantages through my
01:59training and through understanding how I can conduct my job on board the station, on board
02:05the Soyuz, in a proper way.
02:08So the checklist is there, and the Soyuz also.
02:11So we are helping each other to make this mission successful.
02:16Definitely Soyuz is different because it's taking us to the space, so the systems is
02:21a bit different, and also the way we are conducting our procedure, a different way.
02:31There is a lot of buttons in front of me.
02:33Some of them is for ventilations, for powering up the main power of the computer itself behind
02:41the panel, and the voltage meter, and also a lot of other buttons.
02:47We have my own button for speaking with the station, or with ground station if needed.
02:54During the launch and docking, no, nothing in front of me that conducting these procedures,
03:00but I should really carefully look to other colleagues or my crew on board the station
03:06and to see if there is any mistakes they are doing or they are going to do, and help them
03:13through the checklist actions.
03:19Thanks to my previous job, I counter these type of, they call it the G's.
03:24So this is the force that we will counter during the launch.
03:27In the rocket launch, the G's is in your body, it's like someone is crushing your chest,
03:33and it's really continued for like about eight minutes, and it's really up to 3.5 G's, which
03:40is like your weight times four.
03:43So we are prepared, and we learned how to really adapt with this physically and mentally.
03:50It's really a very difficult question, but maybe I'm a very patient person.
03:59In the Soyuz, we are sitting there for more than eight hours.
04:04We'll be sitting in the Soyuz, in the top of the rocket, prior to launch, for two hours,
04:08in a very, really tight position, and we'll be launching for six hours, going to the International
04:15Space Station.
04:16It's really leading a lot of patience, and we are ready for all of what's coming in front of us.
04:28Doing first, I think the first thing I want to do is to experience the microgravity.
04:34Definitely this is one of the things that I want to experience, to be floating aboard
04:39the station, and to maybe fly from the end of the station to the front of it without
04:45any help.
04:50My family, thanks to my wife, I want to thank my wife, and to my kids, they give me a lot
04:57of support from the beginning, from the beginning of the selection until now.
05:02Always they are sending for me good messages, drawings, and they are very simple, but for
05:07me, they mean a lot, because they are proud of their parents, their dad, going to space.
05:16Hello everyone, I would like from you to watch us on the 25th of September, 2019,
05:23on all the channels all around the world, to witness our launch, the historical launch
05:28of the first UAE and Arab astronaut to the International Space Station.
05:34Stay tuned.