{"id":8472,"date":"2010-06-29T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=8472"},"modified":"2015-05-16T02:33:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T02:33:34","slug":"100-astronauts-from-35-countries-to-congregate-in-ukm-in-october-2010","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/june-2010\/100-astronauts-from-35-countries-to-congregate-in-ukm-in-october-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"100 astronauts from 35 countries to congregate in UKM in October 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fjune-2010%2F100-astronauts-from-35-countries-to-congregate-in-ukm-in-october-2010%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=8472&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/astro.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>TUESDAY, 29 JUNE 2010 07:36<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Shahfizal Musa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 28\u00a0 June, 2010&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia \u00a0will host about 100\u00a0astronauts\/cosmonauts from 35 countries when they land in Malaysia for the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) this coming October. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cOne Planet, One Hope, One Future,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ASE in collaboration with the Institute of Space Science (ANGKASA), UKM is finalising details of the event including activities for the astronauts.\u00a0 ANGKASA director, Prof. Dr. Mohd. Alauddin Mohd Ali who is leading the project said that all the astronauts will be in UKM for a day sharing their experiences and knowledge with students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another four will later spend another day in the campus to enable the public to rub shoulders with them. Among them will be the first Muslim astronaut, Prince Sultan Salman, a nephew of King Abdullah ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cosmonaut Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha who is an executive committee member of ASE said UKM was chosen as it is the leading university in the country for space research and education. UKM also has the capabilities to handle such a momentous event having shown positive interest in wanting to be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also will be present is Chris Hadfield the president of ASE was the first Canadian to walk in space. Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions, space shuttle <em>Atlantis<\/em>\u00a0mission to the\u00a0Mir space station and to the ISS flown by <em>Endeavor<\/em> to install a robotic arm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ASE gathering is held in different places every year.\u00a0This year Malaysia was chosen to be the vanue of the congress.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 29 JUNE 2010 07:36 By Shahfizal Musa BANGI, 28\u00a0 June, 2010&#8211;\u00a0 \u00a0Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia \u00a0will host about 100\u00a0astronauts\/cosmonauts from<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/june-2010\/100-astronauts-from-35-countries-to-congregate-in-ukm-in-october-2010\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8473,"parent":1386,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8472","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8472\/revisions\/8474"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}