Saudi Arabia's first astronaut leaves for space station

Saudi Arabia's first astronaut leaves for space station

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: May 24 2023

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  • A private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) hosted by Axiom Space began from Florida on May 21, taking two Saudi astronauts to an orbital laboratory for the first time.
  • Breast cancer researcher Raynah Barnawi is the first Saudi woman to travel in space and her partner on the mission, Saudi Ali al-Karni, is a fighter pilot.
  • The crew of Axiom Mission 2 (AX-2) took off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, the southern state of Florida.
  • This mission is not Saudi Arabia's first attempt at space.
  • In 1985, an Air Force pilot, Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, participated in a space flight hosted by the US.
  • Saudi Arabia established the Saudi Space Commission in 2018 and launched a program last year to send astronauts to space.
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