Astronauts share their experience of life on the ISS and help pupils to explore Earth from space through science and maths activities.
International Space Station
'A Call with Space' will now head to venues across other emirates in the UAE.
The four-person Ax-2 crew will spend 10 days at the station conducting research and educational outreach activities.
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.
The outcome of this experiment will help develop weather control technology to generate artificial rain in future human settlements on the moon and Mars.
Axiom Space is obtaining NASA services to conduct the mission via both the mission specific order and Reimbursable Space Act Agreements.
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.
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 two mission specialists, Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi from Saudi Arabia, are members of the inaugural Saudi national astronaut programme.
