In order not to jeopardize the mission and not to endanger the crew members, it is imperative that we eat sufficient amounts of food,” said the astronaut who will be sent by the United Arab Emirates to the International Space Station
THE astronaut where they will send them United Arab Emirates on the International Space Station said today that it will not comply Ramadan fasting while sending it to space.
“I am considered a traveler and travelers can break their fast”replied o Sultan al Neyadi at the astronauts’ press conference today at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, when asked how they will observe Ramadan. During the Muslim holy month, believers fast from dawn to sunset.
“Fasting is not obligatory if, for example, one is not feeling well,” he explained. “From this point of view, in order not to jeopardize the mission and not to endanger the crew members, it is imperative that we eat sufficient amounts of food,” he added.
At 41, Sultan an Neyadi will become the first astronaut from an Arab country to spend six months in space. The mission will depart on February 26 on a SpaceX rocket.
He will be accompanied on this mission by two Americans, Steven Bowen and Warren Homburg, and a Russian, Andrei Fediayev, who were asked what the consequences of tensions on Earth – mainly the war in Ukraine – could be for their trip to space. “It’s been over 20 years now that I’ve been working and training with cosmonauts and it’s always been amazing. When you’re in space there’s only one crew, one vehicle, and we all have the same goal,” Bowen said.
Fedyaev, for his part, pointed to the “long history” of US cooperation with Russia in space. “People’s life in space, on the International Space Station, is really a very good example of how they should live on Earth,” he said.
The ITS is one of the few areas of Moscow’s cooperation with Washington since the start of the war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia.
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