Newsmakers: Sky is the limit — Nora AlMatrooshi and Mohammad AlMulla gulfnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gulfnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nora AlMatrooshi Just Became The UAE’s First Woman Trainee Astronaut Leah Williams
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has expanded its astronaut trainee program this week with the announcement of two new candidates Nora AlMatrooshi, a mechanical engineer, and Mohammad AlMulla, a pilot with the Dubai Police. The additions are significant for two reasons: not only do they double the number of astronauts the UAE currently has, AlMatrooshi has also become the first woman candidate in the program.
AlMatrooshi and AlMulla will join Hazza AlMansouri and Sultan AlNeyadi as the first four astronauts in the UAE s burgeoning fleet. From here, they ll join NASA s established space training program to prepare for upcoming missions by learning robotics and spacewalking skills. In future, the hope is they ll help pilot a mission to the Moon.
UAE group Farnek secures key FM contracts in Q1
DUBAI, 4 hours, 29 minutes ago Leading UAE-based smart and green facilities management company Farnek has secured a raft of FM contracts, valued at more than AED131 million in Q1 2021, of which AED101 million is new business. The contracts involve a broad spectrum of FM disciplines, covering both hard and soft services, as well as hotel management, a new division that Farnek has only recently launched. All of these contracts vary in length from one to three years and in total Farnek is mobilising 860 extra members of staff to service these new and renewed contracts, said the statement from the company.
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