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Nora AlMatrooshi is the first Emirati and Arab woman astronaut. She is a mechanical engineer who together with her Emirati colleagues graduated at the Nasa astronaut class of 2023 in the US earlier this year.
Nora will be eligible for space missions, including to the International Space Station, as well any other future US-led missions, such as trips to the Moon planned under Nasa’s Artemis programme.
