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Dubai: Fourteen candidates – nine men and five women – have qualified for the final phase of the second batch of the UAE Astronaut Programme, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has announced on Wednesday. The selected candidates will now undergo final interviews conducted by a committee consisting of specialists from MBRSC, including pioneering Emirati astronauts Hazzaa AlMansoori and Sultan AlNeyadi, along with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) astronauts Anne McClain and Jessica Meir. The UAE Astronaut Programme is part of the country’s National Space Prog...

Last Updated: Raja Chari Is The Only Indian-American Selected For NASA’s Mission To Moon, Netizens Cheer An Indian-American US Air Force colonel, Raja Chari is now among the 18 astronauts who have been selected by NASA for its manned mission to the Moon. An Indian-American US Air Force colonel, Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari is now among the 18 astronauts who have been selected by NASA for its manned mission to the Moon. While taking to Twitter, the US space agency informed that Chari will form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next lunar missions, including sending the first wo...

Netizens cheer as Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari picked by NASA for Moon mission Chari is among 18 astronauts, who will form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next lunar missions, including sending the first woman and next man to walk on the lunar surface in 2024. Updated: December 13, 2020 10:29:23 am Raja Chari was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class in 2017. Netizens took to social media to congratulate Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari, an Indian-American US Air Force colonel, after he was selected by NASA for its am...

Raja Chari was chosen from 18,000 applicants in 2017 by NASA for the Artemis moon landing programme.