Sultan Al Neyadi

Sultan Saif Al Neyadi (Arabic: سلطان النيادي; born 23 May 1981) is the UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs and an astronaut. He is one of the first two Arab astronauts or najmonauts from the United Arab Emirates, along with Hazzaa Al Mansoori. He is the first Arab to serve on the International Space Station (ISS) for a 6-month mission as part of and the first Arab astronaut to perform a spacewalk. He was sworn in on 11 January 2024 as the UAE Minister of Youth.

Al Neyadi was the back-up astronaut for Hazzaa AlMansoori, in the UAE's first scientific mission to the ISS in 2019, under the slogan "Zayed's Ambition".