- Saudi Arabia will send its first female astronaut into space.
- Rayna Barnawi will be the first female astronaut from Saudi Arabia to go into space.
- She will join fellow male astronaut Ali al-Qarni on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in the second quarter of 2023.
- The astronauts will be flown from the US and will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission.
- In 2019, the United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to send an astronaut into space.
- Neyadi, 41, will become the first Arab astronaut to spend six months in space.
- Saudi royal prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz is the first Arab Muslim to go into space.
- Saudi Arabia has launched a space program in 2022 to send an astronaut into space.
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