The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from United Arab Emirates
This page contains a list of the greatest Emirati Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in United Arab Emirates. This makes United Arab Emirates the birth place of the 50th most number of Astronauts behind Taiwan, and Morocco.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Emirati Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Emirati Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sultan Al Neyadi (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 35.56, Sultan Al Neyadi is the most famous Emirati Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Sultan Saif Al Neyadi (Arabic: سلطان النيادي; born 23 May 1981) is an Emirati Minister of Youth and a najmonaut. He is one of the first two najmonauts from the United Arab Emirates, along with Hazza Al Mansouri. He is the first Arab to serve on the International Space Station (ISS) for a 6-month mission, as part of Expedition 69 and the first Arab astronaut to perform a spacewalk. He was sworn in on 11 January 2024 as the United Arab Emirates Minister of Youth. Al Neyadi was the back-up for Hazzaa Al Mansoori, in the UAE’s first scientific mission to the ISS in 2019, under the slogan ‘Zayed’s Ambition.’
2. Hazza Al Mansouri (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 33.13, Hazza Al Mansouri is the 2nd most famous Emirati Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.
Hazzaa AlMansoori (Arabic: هَزَّاع ٱلْمَنْصُوْرِي, romanized: Hazzāʿ Al-Manṣūrī, surname also spelled "Al Mansoori", full name Hazzaa Ali Abdan Khalfan Al Mansoori (هَزَّاع عَلِي عَبْدان خَلْفَان ٱلْمَنْصُوْرِي) is an Emirati najmonaut and the first person from the United Arab Emirates in space. In 2019, he embarked on the UAE's first scientific mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission carried the slogan 'Zayed's Ambition', making the UAE the 19th country worldwide, and the first country in the Arab region, to travel to the ISS. He also became the back-up astronaut for Sultan Al Neyadi for the UAE's second mission to the ISS, which is the longest Arab space mission. Previously, he was the UAE's youngest F-16 fighter pilot. On 25 September 2019, he launched aboard the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft to the International Space Station, where he stayed for eight days. He landed safely in Kazakhstan, on 3 October 2019 aboard Soyuz MS-12 completing the United Arab Emirates first astronaut mission.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Emirati astronauts born between 1981 and 1983. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Emirati astronauts include Sultan Al Neyadi, and Hazza Al Mansouri. As of April 2024, 1 new Emirati astronauts have been added to Pantheon including Sultan Al Neyadi.
