Saudi Arabia to send its First Female Astronaut into Space

Saudi Arabia to send its First Female Astronaut into Space

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Category : International Published on: February 16 2023

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Saudi Arabia will send its first ever woman astronaut on a space mission later this year.
Rayyana Barnawi will join Ali Al-Qarni on a 10-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Another fellow Emirati, Sultan Al-Neyadi will also visit the space station at the end of February 2023.
The crew will be launched to the ISS by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
With this, Saudi Arabia is following the footsteps of UAE which became the the first Arab country to send one of its citizens into space in 2019.
For Saudi Arabia, this is not the first foray into space. In 1985, Saudi royal Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz took part in a US-organized space mission, becoming the first Arab Muslim to travel into space.
Saudi Arabia also set up its space program in 2018.

About Saudi Arabia :

King - Salman
Capital - Riyadh
Currency - Saudi Arabian riyal
Official Language -Arabic
Official Religion –Islam

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