Saudi astronauts, including nation's 1st woman, catch a SpaceX flight to space station
Saudi Arabia's first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.
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Two Saudi astronauts will be travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time on a private mission to carry out a number of experiments, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
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Sponsored by the Saudi Arabian government, Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, became the first woman from the kingdom to go to space. She was joined by Ali al-Qarni, a fighter pilot with the Royal Saudi Air Force.
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According to SPA, the team will carry out 14 experiments focused on ¡°human research, cell sciences, and cloud seeding experiments in the microgravity environment¡±.
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In 2018, Saudi Arabia created the Saudi Space Commission and last year launched a programme to send astronauts into space.
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The Kingdom¡¯s history in space extends back to 1985, when Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, an air force pilot, took part in a US-organised space voyage.
The region has been making innovations in the sector in recent years.
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In 2019, Hazzaa al-Mansoori from the UAE became the first Arab to reach the ISS. Last month, UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi became the first Arab to undertake a spacewalk.
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