The International Space Station. Image: ESA

Washington, United States: Two Saudi astronauts, together with the primary Saudi lady, will launch from Florida on a personal mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on 8 May, in keeping with Axiom Space and NASA authorities.

Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast most cancers researcher, would be the first Saudi lady to journey into area, and she or he shall be joined on the journey by fighter pilot Ali Al-Qarni.

Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who shall be making her fourth voyage to the ISS, and John Shoffner, a Tennessee businessman who will act as pilot, will each be on board.

Liftoff of Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for 10:43 pm Eastern Time on 8 May (0243 GMT on 9 May) from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Axiom Space and NASA officers mentioned in a briefing to preview the flight.

The four-member crew will journey to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule and spend 10 days aboard the orbiting area station.

The mission to the ISS would be the second by Axiom Space, a personal area firm.

Axiom Space carried out its first personal astronaut mission to the ISS in April 2022. Four astronauts spent 17 days in orbit as a part of Ax-1.

The area mission involving a Saudi lady is the newest transfer by the dominion to revamp its ultra-conservative picture.

But it isn’t the oil-rich kingdom’s first foray into area.

In 1985, Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, an air power pilot, took half in a US-organized area voyage.

The neighbouring United Arab Emirates has additionally taken half in area missions and an Emirati astronaut, Sultan al-Neyadi, arrived on the ISS a month in the past for a six-month keep.

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Updated Date:

April 08, 2023 00:56:40 IST