One-on-one with First Emirati astronaut Hazza Al Mansoori

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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.

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