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He is one of the first two najmonauts from the United Arab Emirates, along with Hazza Al Mansouri. [3] 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. He was sworn in on 11 January 2024 as the United Arab Emirates Minister ...
Muhammed Faris was a Syrian astronaut born in Aleppo in 1951. [12] Faris was the first Syrian astronaut and second Arab into space, flying in the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz M3 to space station Mir on 22 July 1987 with two Soviet cosmonauts in the program for cooperation in space between Syria and the Soviet Union. He is credited with carrying the ...
H.E. Dr. Sultan AlNeyadi is the UAE Minister of Youth, astronaut and the first Arab to serve on the International Space Station (ISS) for a 6-month mission, as part of Expedition 69. AlNeyadi undertook the longest Arab space mission in history and became the first Arab to conduct a spacewalk during Expedition 69, which lasted 7 hours and 1 minute.
The first EVA by a British astronaut was on January 15, 2016, by Tim Peake. [28] Although British-American Michael Foale carried out an EVA on February 9, 1995, he flew as an American astronaut in NASA's program. [28] The first EVA by an Arab astronaut was made on April 28, 2023, by Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi. [29]
United Arab Emirates Hazza Al Mansouri: Soyuz MS-15 (September 25, 2019) First Emirati in space; third Arab in space. Egypt Sara Sabry: Blue Origin NS-22 (August 4, 2022) Suborbital flight. First Egyptian and African in space; first Arab woman in space; second Muslim woman in space. United Arab Emirates Sultan Al Neyadi: SpaceX Crew-6 (March 2 ...
United Arab Emirates : Sultan Al Neyadi: 2023: Expedition 69 EVA 1 1 254 U.S. Warren Hoburg: 2023: Expedition 69 EVA 5, 6 2 255 China : Jing Haipeng: 2023: Shenzhou 16 EVA 1 1 256 China : Zhu Yangzhu: 2023: Shenzhou 16 EVA 1 1 257 Russia : Nikolai Chub: 2023: Expedition 70 EVA 1 2024: Expedition 71 EVA 1 2 258 U.S. Jasmin Moghbeli: 2023 ...
The astronauts will also route cables, install cable clamps on the Bartolomeo platform, tie back thermal insulation on the Kibo Exposed Facility Berthing Mechanism, break torque on the P4 electronics boxes, replace Camera 8 on the truss which has a bad filter and light, outfit the radiator grapple bars for a future spacewalk, and also do other ...
The mission carried the slogan 'Zayed's Ambition', making the UAE the 19th country worldwide, and the first country in the Arab region, to travel to the ISS. He also became the back-up astronaut for Sultan Al Neyadi for the UAE's second mission to the ISS, which is the longest Arab space mission. Previously, he was the UAE's youngest F-16 ...