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Hazza Al Mansouri and Sultan Al Neyadi during simulation training in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Photo: Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre

Sultan Al Neyadi training in a mock-up Dragon crew vehicle in October. Photo: Nasa / Space X

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Florida, carrying a Crew Dragon spacecraft to space. Photo: EPA / Nasa

Sultan Al Neyadi training at Space X's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Photo: Nasa / Space X

A Crew Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station, April 2022. Photo: Space X / AP

The reusable Crew Dragon capsule returns to Earth. Photo: Nasa TV

Sultan Al Neyadi seen for the first time in a Space X astronaut suit during a training session with his mission colleagues. Photo: Nasa / Space X

The crew, from left, Andrey Fedyaev, William Hoburg, Stephen Bowen and Sultan Al Neyadi

Emirati astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri before boarding a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. EPA

UAE astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri shortly after landing from space, October 3, 2019. AFP / Nasa

International Space Station crew members before launch, September 25, 2019, at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. AFP

Hazza Al Mansouri and Sultan Al Neyadi during simulation training in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Photo: Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre

Sultan Al Neyadi training in a mock-up Dragon crew vehicle in October. Photo: Nasa / Space X

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Florida, carrying a Crew Dragon spacecraft to space. Photo: EPA / Nasa

Sultan Al Neyadi training at Space X's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Photo: Nasa / Space X

A Crew Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station, April 2022. Photo: Space X / AP

The reusable Crew Dragon capsule returns to Earth. Photo: Nasa TV

Sultan Al Neyadi seen for the first time in a Space X astronaut suit during a training session with his mission colleagues. Photo: Nasa / Space X

The crew, from left, Andrey Fedyaev, William Hoburg, Stephen Bowen and Sultan Al Neyadi

Emirati astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri before boarding a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. EPA

UAE astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri shortly after landing from space, October 3, 2019. AFP / Nasa

International Space Station crew members before launch, September 25, 2019, at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. AFP

Hazza Al Mansouri and Sultan Al Neyadi during simulation training in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Photo: Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre

Sultan Al Neyadi's space mission delayed by Russian rescue effort

The Emirati was due to blast into space on February 19 but the mission will be pushed back to allow for three stranded astronauts to be brought home

January 14, 2023

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