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When Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi stepped out of the International Space Station for the first space walk by an Arab astronaut, the United Arab Emirates’ Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre called it a “new historic milestone”. Alneyadi, 41, dubbed the “Sultan of Space” by his alma mater, become the first Arab astronaut to embark on a six-month space mission when he blasted off for the ISS in early March aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA showed him exiting an ISS hatch April 28 for a space walk with NASA's Stephen Bowen that lasted around six hours and thirty minutes, routing power cables to prepare for future power system upgrades outside the ISS. Alneyadi is the second man from UAE to go to space. The UAE sent an unmanned spacecraft to Mars in 2021, in the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission, and last year a rover to the Moon.
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