When the UAE’s Sultan AlNeyadi stepped outside the airlock of the International Space Station to begin a seven hour spacewalk over a month ago, he etched his name in history books as the first Arab astronaut to venture into the unknown depths of space. Th
AlNeyadi acted as back-up to Hazza Al Mansouri when he conducted his eight-day mission to the ISS in September/October 2019.
AlNeyadi studied in Britain at the University of Brighton, where he received a BSc (Hons) in electronics and communications engineering in 2004.
After going back to the UAE, he studied at Zayed Military College for a year and then worked in the UAE armed forces as a communications engineer.