On 12 April 2019, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced that it had selected Hazza AlMansoori as the prime astronaut for an eight-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 September 2019. He will go on board the Soyuz-MS15 spacecraft which will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Expedition 61/62, returning to Earth aboard a Soyuz-MS 12 on 3 October 2019.