Watch Live as Sultan Al Neyadi Becomes First Arab Astronaut to Perform a Spacewalk
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Two astronauts are gearing up for a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, with one of them set to make history as the first Arab astronaut to take on the extravehicular activity.