The United Arab Emirates’ astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi has shared a stunning night-time view of Dubai from space – capturing some of the emirate’s most famous landmarks.
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai, shared the photo on his Twitter account, describing it as “an awe-inspiring photograph of Dubai taken by Emirati astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi.”
https://twitter.com/HamdanMohammed/status/1653772595492188162
Last week al-Neyadi - who is currently on a six-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS) - made history by becoming the first Arab to perform a spacewalk.
Al-Neyadi trained for more than 55 hours at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in preparation for spacewalks.
https://twitter.com/Astro_Alneyadi/status/1654063551932137473
He blasted into space on March 2 from the United States’ NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of a six-month mission which will carry out experiments ...