Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades have rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight. 9News
now working for the company that arranged the trip. Also on board: a US businessman who now owns a sports car racing team.in their capsule Monday morning – they’ll spend just over a week there before returning home with a splashdown off the Florida coast.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.
It’s the second private flight to the space station organised by Houston-based Axiom Space. The first was last year by three businessmen, with another retired NASA astronaut. The company plans to start adding its own rooms to the station in another few years, eventually removing them to form a stand-alone outpost available for hire.
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