UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi safely returns to Earth
This was the UAEs second human space flight and the Arab worlds first extended mission as well as the first time an Arab astronaut performed a spacewalk.
This was the UAEs second human space flight and the Arab worlds first extended mission as well as the first time an Arab astronaut performed a spacewalk.
Al Neyadi has devoted 585 hours to conducting various ground-breaking experiments and nominal tasks aboard the International Space Station.
In order to make room for other spacecraft arriving later this month and in June, NASA instructed astronauts to relocate the spacecraft from the station's Harmony module to the lab's ...
Nasa has set a new launch date for the SpaceX rocket carrying Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi after the blast-off was postponed on February 27.
The mission will make the UAE the 11th country to send astronauts on a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
This will be the UAE's second ISS mission, after Hazza Al Mansouri spent eight days on the orbiting science laboratory in 2019.
During the mission, Al Neyadi will conduct many in-depth and advanced scientific experiments as part of the UAE Astronaut Programme.
Crew 6 will be launched to the International Space Station in mid-February next year aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with Sultan AlNeyadi and two other astronauts.