Sultan Saif AlNeyadi (Arabic: سلطان النيادي; born 23 May 1981) UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs and an astronaut.

Al Neyadi is an alumnus of Griffith University where he received a Masters of Science and a PhD in information technology in 2008 and 2012, respectively and published six research papers in peer-reviewed journals.

He also posted a video outlining how the martial art helped foster skills of discipline, focus and adaptability that he has been able to replicate during his preparation for the 6-month mission, and during his time on the ISS.

During the spacewalk, which lasted 7 hours and 1 minute, they successfully completed a series of preparatory tasks which included routing power cables, as a precursor to the installation of the iROSA.

AlNeyadi further received training in Houston, Texas and Cologne in Germany, as part of partnership agreements with major space agencies, including NASA, ESA, and JAXA.

In 2018, AlNeyadi was one of the two selected astronauts in the first batch of the UAE Astronaut Programme, launched by then-crown prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE's vice president and prime minister and ruler of Dubai.

[11] However, it was announced in April 2022 that MBRSC instead acquired a seat from Axiom Space for a UAE astronaut to travel to the ISS on NASA’s crew rotation flight, SpaceX Crew-6.

[13] AlNeyadi, during his tenure of over 4,000 hours aboard the ISS, participated in 20+ research experiments and studies in collaboration with NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) on a wide range of topics, including: As part of the UAE Astronaut Programme’s Grants Research Programme, AlNeyadi will also be supporting two research projects from the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences supported.