Nora Al Matrooshi

Nora AlMatrooshi
نورا المطروشي
AlMatrooshi in 2022
Born	1993 (age 30–31) Emirate of Sharjah, UAE
Status	Active
Space career
MBRSC astronaut
Selection	MBRSC Group 2 (2021) NASA Group 23 (2021)

Nora AlMatrooshi (Arabic: نورا المطروشي; born 1993) is an Emirati engineer and astronaut.

AlMatrooshi is a mechanical engineer by training, with a BS from the United Arab Emirates University. She competed in the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She also studied in 2014 at the Vaasa University of Applied Sciences (VAMK) in Finland, and studied Korean at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea. Since 2016, she works as a piping engineer at the UAE's National Petroleum Construction Company. She is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

In 2021, she was one of two astronauts chosen for the second cohort at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre. Unlike the first group, AlMatrooshi was invited to train with NASA Astronaut Group 23. In 2024, upon receiving her astronaut pin, she became the first Arab woman to graduate from NASA's astronaut program.

See also

• Timeline of space travel by nationality
• UAE Space Agency

Further reading

• Bartels, Meghan (2021-08-11). "The United Arab Emirates has 2 new astronauts. They're shooting for the moon". Space.com. Retrieved 2021-12-23.