![]() She now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that organized the 10-day trip, its second to the space station. Retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is their chaperone. John Shoffner, a Knoxville, Tennessee, businessman who started a car racing team, is paying his own way. Saudi Arabia's government is picking up the multimillion-dollar tab for its first female astronaut, Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, and fighter pilot Ali al-Qarni. The 270-mile-high docking puts the space station population at 11, representing not only Saudi Arabia and the U.S., but the United Arab Emirates and Russia. The four guests will spend just over a week there, before returning to Earth in their capsule. SpaceX's chartered flight arrived at the orbiting lab less than 16 hours after blasting off from Florida. The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdom's first female astronaut. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |