“We plan to develop our space program. We plan to send Sultan al-Neyadi to the ISS in the near future, ”RIA Novosti quoted Ahmad Belhoul as saying.

He stated that the agency is currently focused on the safe return of the astronaut, who is on the ISS.

“In the future, we will work on sending additional astronauts into space,” the chairman of the agency’s board of directors added.

Earlier it was reported that the Soyuz MS-15 crew switched to the ISS.

The main crew included: commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skrypochka, American astronaut Jessica Meir and the first participant in a space flight from the UAE, Hazzaa Al Mansuri.