Astronauts Noura Al Matrooshi and Muhammad Al Mulla, graduates of the second batch of the Emirates Astronaut Program, completed their training on geology, as part of the “NASA” program for astronauts 2021. These exercises included theoretical classes on the surface of the moon and planet Mars, and future human missions to them, in addition to getting acquainted with them. Space weather information, surface activity field exercises and geological terrain mapping.
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These specialized exercises during the past months preceded the implementation of the first phase of geological exercises, which they finished while they were at the Johnson Center in America affiliated with NASA, to get acquainted with the various topography of the earth and its various processes, through their spending a “geology camping trip”, which qualified them to explore Collecting information, building geological stories for the area to be studied, and knowing its geological history, by inspecting the rock structures and comparing their different formations. Geological histories of other planets.
The astronauts’ training comes within the 23rd batch of astronauts at the US space agency “NASA”, with the participation of 10 others, which lasts about two years, as it started more than a year ago, while joining the “NASA Astronauts” program is part of the joint strategic agreement between the UAE and the United States. United States, to train Emirati astronauts.
The training of the astronauts during the past months included a lot of specialized knowledge, in order to acquire new skills, which qualify them to operate the International Space Station, and carry out long qualitative missions in space. In space, the importance of the equipment in the International Space Station, in addition to ways of living in the forests and the desert, with the aim of preparing them for emergency landings in remote areas, leading to the training they get inside the space laboratories that help them operate special equipment and devices necessary to conduct scientific and engineering experiments.
The exercises also included how to perform an emergency landing in the water, such as the landing of the space shuttle in the ocean or its landing on an air corridor, and other exercises that qualify them to deal with all cases of emergency landing in all environments, as well as studying how missile engines and flight mechanics work, and learning about science. Other different, such as geology that helps them learn about the nature of the lunar surface and other related cognitive matters.
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Al Mulla and Al Matrooshi also trained to fly T6 aircraft with the US Navy in Florida. These trainings are designed to prepare for flying on T38 jets to perform maneuvers during ascent and descent, exposure to high g-forces, exposure to emergency situations, flight path planning, and communication with Air navigation control towers, standard procedures similar to some of the missions of the International Space Station, and how to deal and communicate with the flight crew and communicate with them under certain pressures to measure their reactions and timing.
