Sultan Al Neyadi

Sultan Al Neyadi
Portrait Al Neyadi in 2022
UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 January 2024
President	Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Prime Minister	Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Preceded by	Shamma Al Mazrui
Personal details
Born	Sultan Saif Muftah Hamad Al Neyadi (1981-05-25) 25 May 1981 (age 43) Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Children	6
Alma mater	University of Brighton (BS) Griffith University (MS, PhD)
Occupation	Engineer
Space career
UAE astronaut (2018)
Time in space	185 days, 22 hours and 43 minutes
Selection	MBRSC Selection 1[1]
Total EVAs	1
Total EVA time	7 hours, 1 minute
Missions	SpaceX Crew-6 (Expedition 68/69)
Mission insignia

H.E. Dr. Sultan Saif Al Neyadi (Arabic: سلطان النيادي; born 23 May 1981) is an Emirati astronaut and one of the first two astronauts from the United Arab Emirates, along with Hazza Al Mansouri. 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. On 6 January 2024, Al Neyadi was appointed as the minister of state for youth in the United Arab Emirates, and was sworn in on 11 January 2024.

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.’^[2]