Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, received astronauts Sultan Al Neyadi and Hazza Al Mansouri.
He also met the team behind the Zayed Ambition 2 mission from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre.
The meeting took place at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, where Sheikh Mansour was engaged conversations with the team and praised their efforts in successfully completing the UAE space mission, the longest in Arab history.
Sheikh Mansour urged the team to continue pushing forward the nation's aspirations in space, praising their achievements in the field.
He was also briefed on the UAE's future projects in the space sector and the centre's plans for the next phase, including the Emirates Astronaut Programme, which aims to develop a national team of astronauts to take part in crewed exploration flights and programmes.
Sheikh Mansour also met Hamad Al Mansouri, chairman of the board of directors of the MBRSC, Yousef Al Shaibani, vice chairman of the board of directors, and Salem Al Marri, director general of the MBRSC.
Dr Al Neyadi returned to the UAE after his historic six-month visit to the International Space Station in September.
He became the first Arab to carry out an extended space mission, as well as the first to perform a spacewalk.
He took part in more than 200 experiments on the ISS assigned by Nasa and universities in the UAE.
The MBRSC carries out research, projects and studies on space to support the UAE's drive for advancing the sector, and building national knowledge and scientific capabilities.
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Director: Majid Al Ansari
Rating: 4/5
Earth under attack: Cosmic impacts throughout history
- 4.5 billion years ago: Mars-sized object smashes into the newly-formed Earth, creating debris that coalesces to form the Moon
- 66 million years ago: 10km-wide asteroid crashes into the Gulf of Mexico, wiping out over 70 per cent of living species – including the dinosaurs.
- 50,000 years ago: 50m-wide iron meteor crashes in Arizona with the violence of 10 megatonne hydrogen bomb, creating the famous 1.2km-wide Barringer Crater
- 1490: Meteor storm over Shansi Province, north-east China when large stones “fell like rain”, reportedly leading to thousands of deaths.
- 1908: 100-metre meteor from the Taurid Complex explodes near the Tunguska river in Siberia with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima-type bombs, devastating 2,000 square kilometres of forest.
- 1998: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 breaks apart and crashes into Jupiter in series of impacts that would have annihilated life on Earth.
-2013: 10,000-tonne meteor burns up over the southern Urals region of Russia, releasing a pressure blast and flash that left over 1600 people injured.
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Consoles: PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series X/S
Rating: 3/5
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