The four-person Ax-2 crew will spend 10 days at the station conducting research and educational outreach activities.
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Hazzaa AlMansoori, the Expedition 69 increment lead, joined Al Neyadi from the NASA ground station in Houston.
The spacewalk – which Al Neyadi will do with NASA Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen - is set to last about six and a half hours.
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 mission will make the UAE the 11th country to send astronauts on a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
The UAE astronaut will serve as a mission specialist on the SpaceX Crew-6 mission.
