{"id":12247,"date":"2019-10-01T18:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=12247"},"modified":"2019-10-01T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:40:07","slug":"a-historical-photo-from-the-international-space-station-hazzaa-al-mansouri-in-the-emirati-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/10\/01\/a-historical-photo-from-the-international-space-station-hazzaa-al-mansouri-in-the-emirati-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"A historical photo from the international space station Hazzaa al Mansouri in the Emirati costume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hazza Al Mansouri has made himself feel at home aboard the International Space Station by swapping a space suit with an Emirati kandura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE&#8217;s first astronaut donned traditional Emirati clothes on Tuesday to share some of his country&#8217;s culture with the eight other astronauts on board the station.<br><br>Maj Al Mansouri opted for a hamdaniya &#8211; a more casual head wrap &#8211; over a ghutra and igal, likely to avoid any of his garments from floating away in the station&#8217;s microgravity environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured beaming beside his fellow astronauts, images of Maj Al Mansouri were shared by Dubai Media Office on Twitter.<br><br>During his eight-day mission, Maj Al Mansouri will host a traditional food night for his crew mates, offering canned and liquefied versions of the nation&#8217;s best-loved dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the menu will be halal dishes including salona, madrouba and balaleet &#8211; prepackaged by the Space Food Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Maj Al Mansouri conducted a series of experiments to test reactions to stimuli in microgravity and the effects of space on the perception of time.<br><br>Floating in a room with his eyes covered, he had to estimate the length of a minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old \u2014 a former F-16 Block 60 fighter pilot \u2014 will return to Earth, landing at one of three sites in Kazakhstan about 4pm UAE time on Thursday.<br><br>The National<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"826\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-3.png 826w, https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-3-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-3-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Capture-3-110x75.png 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazza Al Mansouri has made himself feel at home aboard the International Space Station by swapping a space suit with an Emirati kandura. The UAE&#8217;s first astronaut donned traditional Emirati clothes on Tuesday to share some of his country&#8217;s culture with the eight other astronauts on board the station.Maj Al Mansouri opted for a hamdaniya &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12252,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions\/12252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}