Hyderabad, Jan. 15 -- The United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, has completed the final training in the United States (US), for the six-month landmark mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2023.

In July 2022, among a group of Emirati astronauts at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC), Sultan Al Neyadi was chosen to be the first Arab astronaut who will spend a long six-month mission at the International Space Station (ISS).

Al Neyadi will take part in the NASA mission which plans to set off in February 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Kennedy Space Centre.

Officials announced in April that they had purchased space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flight, without specifying who would pa...