Watch Emirati astronaut Hazzaa AlMansoori’s first space flight, he became UAE’s first astronaut in space. The Soyuz MS-15 is headed to the International Space Station and is expected to make a rendezvous and dock by 12am UAE time.
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00:45Hi, this is Evangeline Elsa and I am reporting live from Baikonur.
00:57Behind me is the Soyuz spacecraft that will soon take Emirati astronaut Haza Al-Mansouri
01:02into space, making him the first Emirati astronaut to enter the International Space Station.
01:15This is Janice Ponce de Leon reporting for Gulf News Live from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
01:28Just to tell you a bit about the launch sequence using the Soyuz rocket, right now Haza Al-Mansouri
01:34is already strapped in his seat along with Russian commander Oleg Skripochka and NASA
01:40astronaut Jessica Meir.
01:43It's now 5.38 Kazakhstan time, or Baikonur time, and it would be around 4.38 in the UAE.
01:53The crew will be waiting inside the spacecraft for about two hours before liftoff.
01:59In Kazakhstan that will be 6.56, but in the UAE that will be 5.56 p.m.
02:05So as soon as they liftoff, the first stage, so this is a three-stage rocket, the first
02:10stage will burn off in about 1 minute and 58 seconds, after which it will separate from
02:17the rocket.
02:20The Soyuz rocket is a three-stage rocket, giving it three stages of thrust at various
02:25points during the flight to space.
02:30So it takes about 1 minute and 58 seconds for the first stage to burn off, following
02:36which it will be jettisoned, but before it is ejected, the second stage will burn off.
02:42So they use a hot stage technique wherein they switch on the next stage first before
02:49cutting off the engine for the first stage.
02:52Now it will take about 8 minutes and 48 minutes for all the three stages to burn up, and by
02:58then the crew will feel a final jolt before they feel weightless and experience zero gravity.
03:06So that means they've reached an altitude of about 210 kilometers, and by this time
03:11they will have reached a distance of 1,640 kilometers by land.
03:16By the time they reach that 9-minute mark, you will see the stuffed toys hanging over
03:21their heads inside the cockpit, floating around.
03:25That means they're already in space, and the six-hour chase to the International Space
03:31Station will begin.
03:32Docking will take place at midnight in the UAE, and there will be another two-hour wait
03:37to make sure that the air pressure and everything else is correct before the hatch will be opened
03:44and the new crew members will be allowed inside the ISS.
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