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History Made! Uae Astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi Is the First Arab to Do a Spacewalk

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Spacewalk!

UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi performed the first Arab spacewalk outside the International Space Station yesterday! Sultan was scheduled to spend seven hours outside the ISS on a key maintenance assignment. Yet, the live broadcast of the spacewalk on Nasa totaled nine hours!

261 spacewalks have taken place at the orbiting science laboratory since 1998!

A huge achievement!

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