AMMAN —
Axiom Space and NASA officials on
Thursday said a special mission will head to the
International Space Station in
May. Two Saudi astronauts will be on board.
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The Saudi astronauts are astronaut Ali
Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher who will be the first
Saudi woman to go to space.
The mission also includes
Peggy Whitson, a
former NASA astronaut who has flown three times to the International Space
Station, and John Shoffner, an American contractor who will lead the flight,
according to the Washington Post.
‘Important step’Dr Muhammad Ababneh, Director of Thermal
Systems at Blue Origin and NASA, said that this flight is “an important step in
human spaceflight” that aims to serve humanity by achieving commercial and
scientific space exploration goals, and to empower Arab movement towards space.
The Ax–2 mission will depart on a
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on May 8 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
This mission is the second to the
international station organized by Axiom Space.
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