According to the document, an astronaut will fly to the ISS on board the Russian Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft.
It has not been determined yet if Hazza Mansouri or Sultan Nayadi will take part in the mission. Both astronauts have qualified for it and have begun their training in Russia earlier in September.
A UAE astronaut will fly to the ISS as part of the crew comprising Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and US astronaut Christina Koch and will return to Earth together with Aleksey Ovchinin from Russia and Nick Hague from the United States.