The United Arab Emirates on Monday announced the date the first astronaut from the Gulf Arab nation will go into space. The country will send either Hazza al-Mansouri or Sultan al-Nayadi to the International Space Station on September 25 aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket, AP reports. Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, had already announced the astronauts’ names last September. The UAE has a fledgling space program, and it launched its first locally made satellite, KhalifaSat, in October from Japan. It wants to launch a probe to Mars in 2020.