Above the clouds, the vision of the Crown Prince passes. The logo embodies the Saudi astronaut program announced by the Space Authority. With the aim of creating a leaping generation that does not know the impossible and achieves every innovative and new thing that competes with the world's race and its run to space. Rayana Bernawi won the title of the first Saudi female astronaut with her colleague on the flight, Ali Al-Qarni, as they were dispatched to the International Space Station, with the training of a female pioneer and other astronauts on all mission requirements.
The two astronauts will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission with the aim of building national capacities in the field of manned flights for the sake of humanity, benefiting from the promising opportunities offered by the space sector and its industries globally, and contributing to scientific research that is in the interest of serving humanity in a number of priority areas. Such as health, sustainability and space technology, and the scientific flight will start from the United States of America to the International Space Station.
Through the astronaut program, the Kingdom seeks to activate scientific innovations at the level of space sciences, enhance its ability to conduct its own research independently, which will reflect positively on the future of industry and the country, and increase the interest of graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and the development of human capital, by attracting Talents and the development of the necessary skills. Saudi Arabia also relies on the astronaut program to strengthen its position in the global race towards space and its exploration, and to raise its position in the map of countries that race to space and invest in its specialized sciences.
The support and empowerment found by the Space Authority from the leadership remains the main engine behind the broad steps and qualitative leaps of Saudi Arabia in the field of space, by overcoming all the difficulties and obstacles facing the sector. .
The two astronauts will join the AX-2 crew.
Contribute to scientific research that is in the interest of serving humanity
The flight takes off in the second quarter of this year from the United States
Benefit from the trip in health and sustainability research and space technology
Okaz (Riyadh) @okaz_online
