Sultan Al Neyadi
Sultan Al Neyadi is an Emirati astronaut. He is the first Arab to serve on the International Space Station (ISS) for a 6-month mission, as part of Expedition 69 and the first Arab Astronaut to perform a spacewalk. Al Neyadi was the back-up for Hazzaa Al Mansoori, in the UAE’s first scientific mission to the ISS in 2019, under the slogan ‘Zayed’s Ambition’. Sultan Al Neyadi has returned to Earth, after completing a historic six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying him and three fellow astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 8.17am, UAE time, on Monday 11 September 2023.