#Technische Universität München
Akram Abdellatif, a 27-year-old Egyptian engineer, is steps away from becoming Egypt’s first astronaut. Through a considerable amount of hard work and sacrifice, Abdellatif has managed to take several leaps towards his dream despite the absence of an Egyptian space agency and the US space agency, NASA, requiring its astronauts to be US citizens. Abdellatif started off on a “normal” career track, studying communications engineering at the German University in Cairo and later facing many difficulties getting into European airspace…