This is how UAE’s first astronaut in space will the reach the International Space Station

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The rocket that will take the world’s first Emirati astronaut into space will be launched tomorrow at 5:56pm UAE time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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00:00Five, four, three, two, one.

00:29And liftoff.

00:50The orbital module, the descent module, and the instrument compartment.

00:55Each compartment has a different architecture and a specific purpose.

01:00The orbital module, or living compartment, is equipped with sleeping bags, food, and

01:05a toilet.

01:09So here we are in the Soyuz.

01:10This is what we call the VET-O, the living compartment, VIT-DO-BOY-AT-SEK in Russian.

01:16It also has a little bathroom.

01:18It's not as good as the other bathrooms, so we try not to use it too much.

01:22It has drinking water in it if we need something to drink.

01:25And then, of course, it's filled up with a lot of cargo for us.

01:30The instrument compartment, not accessible to the astronauts, houses the oxygen and propellant

01:35tanks, thrusters, the on-board computer, and a number of sensors.

01:41From the descent module, the three crew members monitor all information about the spacecraft

01:45and the ISS from ground data, the on-board computers, and an optical display of the view

01:51from a periscope mounted on the outside.

02:21NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

02:51NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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