List of Arab astronauts

To date, there have been six astronauts from Arab nations, also called "najmonauts"^[1][2][3][4] (from Arabic نجم (najm), meaning 'star', and Ancient Greek ναύτης (nautes), meaning 'sailor')^[5][6] who have flown to space.^[7][8]

Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia flew in the US Space Shuttle in 1985.^[9][10][11] Syrian astronaut Muhammed Faris made a space flight in 1987, as part of a joint Syrian-Soviet mission.^[12][13][14] In 2019 Hazza Al Mansouri of the United Arab Emirates flew in the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft to the International Space Station and in 2023 Sultan Al Neyadi from the United Arab Emirates flew to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon crew capsule.^[15][16][17] Al Neyadi was later joined during his mission by Ali Al-Qarni and the first Arab female, Saudi Rayyanah Barnawi, both from Saudi Arabia.^{[18][19][20][21]}