CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—The second astronaut from the United Arab Emirates is still adjusting to life off the planet, after rocketing to the International Space Station last week.
“I’m still coping. I’m still learning,” Sultan al-Neyadi said Tuesday, but added that he hopes to improve in the coming days.
He’s the second UAE astronaut to fly in space and the first from the Arab world to be assigned to a long spaceflight—the others stayed for about a week. He’ll be up there until September.
Al-Neyadi assured Dubai’s ruler in a video call Tuesday that he and the rest of his crew are in good health. But he joked that the small plush astronaut toy that he took up may be coping better with microgravity than he is….