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Saudi Astronauts Finish Training for Mission to ISS, Enter Quarantine Period
Saudi Astronauts Finish Training for Mission to ISS, Enter Quarantine Period
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Saudi astronauts Rayyannah Barnawi and Ali Alqarni have finished training and entered quarantine period to visit International Space Station.
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According to the report, Saudi astronauts Rayyannah Barnawi and Ali Alqarni will carry out 14 scientific research experiments during the mission to the ISS, including three educational awareness experiments. Their training was held at the National Space Training and Research Centre in the United States on the equipment and procedures necessary to complete the mission to ISS with Axiom Space and SpaceX, as well as at NASA Johnson Centre as part of the Human Exploration Research Analog program, the report said. The mission marks Saudi Arabia's return to manned spaceflight nearly four decades after the country sent the first Arab astronaut, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, into space in 1985. Barnawi will also become the first Arab woman to go into space. NASA has earlier announced the next private sector Axiom Space flight to the ISS, the Axiom Mission-2 (Ax-2), which will include Alqarni and Barnawi as the mission specialists, adding that Barnawi will command the mission. The launch of the mission is scheduled for May 22, and the astronauts are expected to spend ten days aboard the space station.
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Saudi Astronauts Finish Training for Mission to ISS, Enter Quarantine Period
06:11 GMT 11.05.2023 (Updated: 17:11 GMT 20.06.2023) MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Saudi Arabian astronauts have completed their nine months-long training for the flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and entered the quarantine period in preparation for the launch in May, the official Saudi media reported on Wednesday, citing the Saudi Space Commission.
According to the report, Saudi astronauts Rayyannah Barnawi and Ali Alqarni will carry out 14 scientific research experiments during the mission to the ISS, including three educational awareness experiments.
Their training was held at the National Space Training and Research Centre in the United States on the equipment and procedures necessary to complete the mission to ISS with Axiom Space and SpaceX, as well as at NASA Johnson Centre as part of the Human Exploration Research Analog program, the report said.
The mission marks Saudi Arabia's return to manned spaceflight nearly four decades after the country sent the first Arab astronaut,
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, into space in 1985. Barnawi will also become the first Arab woman to go into space.
NASA has earlier announced the next private sector Axiom Space flight to the ISS, the Axiom Mission-2 (Ax-2), which will include Alqarni and Barnawi as the mission specialists, adding that Barnawi will command the mission. The launch of the mission is scheduled for May 22, and the astronauts are expected to spend ten days aboard the space station.
