Sultan Saif AlNeyadi
UAE Astronaut
- Date of Birth:23 May 1981
- Education:PhD Information Technology, Griffith University, Australia; BSc Electronics & Communication Engineering, University of Brighton, UK
- Previous Occupation:UAE Military network security engineer
UAE Astronaut:
Sultan AlNeyadi is an Emirati astronaut and 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.
AlNeyadi was the back-up for Hazzaa AlMansoori, in the UAE’s first scientific mission to the ISS in 2019, under the slogan ‘Zayed’s Ambition’.