Alia Al Mansoori
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Alia Al Mansoori | |
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Born | c. 2002 |
Nationality | Emirati |
Education | Al Mawakeb Schools |
Known for | Winning the Genes In Space UAE competition in 2017 |
Alia Al Mansoori (born July 23, 2002[citation needed]) is an Emirati teenage pupil at Al Mawakeb School. In 2017 she won the Genes in Space UAE competition, with a proposal to study how exposure to space affects the health of live organisms at cellular level. Her experiment was loaded onto the August 2017 SpaceX CRS-12 mission.[1] Al Mansoori's experiment studied the expression of heat-shock proteins in space, establishing that the genes turning them on could be detected. The results of the experiment are not yet known but most likely will be revealed soon. [2]
Al Mansoori plans to study genetics at university,[2] ultimately pursuing postgraduate study to become an astronaut. Her dream "is to be the first Emirati woman to visit Mars".[3]
References
[edit]- ^ James Langton, Dreams of Emirati teenager Alia Al Mansoori launched into space, August 14, 2017.
- ^ a b Kaleigh Rogers, The Teenager Who Sent An Experiment to Space and Dreams of Visiting Mars,motherboard.vice.com, January 9, 2018kundi Nahid .
- ^ Wam, "My dream is to be the first Emirati woman to go to Mars": Alia Al Mansoori, Emirates 24/7, October 12, 2007.