Rayyanah Barnawi to become first Saudi female astronaut on AX-2 mission
Saudi Arabia’s Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali Al-Qarni will be the first Saudi astronauts sent by the kingdom to the International Space Station, as part of the crew of the AX-2 space mission. The scientific flight is scheduled to launch from the US on May 21. Barnawi is a Saudi astronaut, born in 1990. On February …
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Egypt Independent
May 9, 2023
NASA has named the first woman and the first African-American to be assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission. The history-making pair was intoduced as part of a four-member team … Continued
