Hazzaa AlMansoori, the Expedition 69 increment lead, joined Al Neyadi from the NASA ground station in Houston.
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Astronauts share their experience of life on the ISS and help pupils to explore Earth from space through science and maths activities.
'A Call with Space' will now head to venues across other emirates in the UAE.
The spacewalk – which Al Neyadi will do with NASA Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen - is set to last about six and a half hours.
AlMansoori will be the point of contact between the ground team and the ISS crew during real-time operations of Expedition 69.
Sultan Al Neyadi demonstrated the benefits of exercise on the International Space Station in the first episode of 'ELF in Space'.
Al Neyadi is the second Emirati to travel into space, following on from Hazza Al Mansouri's eight-day stay on the ISS in September 2019.
Nasa has set a new launch date for the SpaceX rocket carrying Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi after the blast-off was postponed on February 27.
The astronauts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center at 9.30 p.m. UAE time aboard a Gulfstream jet from their home base in Houston.
The mission will make the UAE the 11th country to send astronauts on a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
