A personal flight bring 2 Saudi astronauts and other visitors has gothere at the International Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon pill and a team of 4 personal astronauts, raises off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, May 21,2023 (AP Photo/John Raoux)
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for 2 Saudi visitors, consistingof the kingdom’s initially woman astronaut.
SpaceX’s chartered flight gothere at the orbiting laboratory less than 16 hours after blasting off from Florida. The 4 visitors will invest simply over a week there, priorto returning to Earth in their pill.
The 270-mile-high (430-kilometer-high) docking puts the area station population at 11, representing not just Saudi Arabia and the U.S., however the United Arab Emirates and Russia.
UAE’s astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi welcomed them with dates, a standard Arab welcome.
“This reveals how area brings everybody together,” stated Saudi Arabia’s initially woman astronaut, Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell scientist. “I’m going to live this expe