In his free time Akram Abdellatif is working to qualify as an astronaut. (Photo: privat)
There has never been an Egyptian astronaut. But that will not prevent Akram Abdellatif from realizing his dream of going into space. Currently writing his doctoral thesis at TUM's Institute of Flight System Dynamics, the 27-year-old has had to make various sacrifices along the way. And they are clearly paying off: he has now been accepted onto the PoSSUM research program, supported by US space agency, NASA. Training for the space-mission begins next week. Becoming an astronaut is not exactly conventional in Egypt, to put it mildly. Egypt does not have a space agency.
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