With the whole nation rooting on and watching, Saleh Al Ameri is prepared to exit the isolation pod in Moscow that he and 5 fellow human test subjects other have been living in for eight months as part of a space travel experiment.
Saleh Al Ameri, 31, an Emirati mechanical engineer who left his life in Abu Dhabi behind to live almost completely cut off from the world to train for the UAE’s first analogue mission.
The tests being conducted in the pod study the psychological and physiological effects of isolation by simulating journeys into deep space.
On July 3, at 2 pm UAE time, the hatch of the NEK experimental complex will be opened to let Mr. Saleh and his colleagues — three Russians and two Americans — out into the world for the first time since November 4.
The event will be streamed on Roscosmos' YouTube channel.
Photo Credits : Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre www.mbrsc.ae