CP RECEIVES GERMAN ASTRONAUT

CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY SUPREME COMMANDER SHAIKH  SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA HAS HAILED THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE EXPERTS WHO  ANSWER HUMANITY’S YEARNING FOR PROGRESS, ADVANCEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE  ACQUISITION MAINLY THAT THE SPACE FIELD IS SO RICH AND VAST.

SPEAKING AS HE RECEIVED THE GERMAN ASTRONAUT THOMAS REITER, A MEMBER OF THE  EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA), KNOWN FOR HIS BROAD SPACE EXPERIENCE AND  EXPERTISE, SHAIKH SALMAN LISTENED TO REITER SPEAKING ABOUT HIS VISIT TO  BAHRAIN DURING WHICH HE VISITED THE UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN AND THE GIFTED  STUDENTS CENTER AND HIS MEETINGS WITH A NUMBER OF BAHRAINI STUDENTS,  INTERESTED  IN THE SPACE FIELD.

THE CROWN PRINCE ALSO LISTENED TO A BRIEFING ON THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY AND  ITS SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS.

PRESENT AT THE MEETING WERE HEAD OF THE CROWN PRINCE’S COURT SHAIKH KHALIFA  BIN DAIJ AL KHALIFA AND A9C COMPANY BOARD CHAIRMAN.