Saudi Arabia Sends Its First Astronauts to Space

Saudi Arabia with private space companies axiom An agreement has been signed between According to this agreement two Saudi astronautswill be part of the team that will travel to the International Space Station on the next Axiom mission.

Accordingly, two Saudi astronauts, SpaceX Falcon 9 He will travel with his rocket. Like this from Gulf countries They will be the first civilian space travelers. According to the reports, this agreement is not new, it was signed earlier in the year.

A first in space travel

NASA and Axiom decided to welcome the four-person civilian crew to the International Space Station for the first time in April. That team spent 15 days in space and then returned to our planet without any problems. NASA, dated 2023 decided to cooperate with Axiom for the second mission.

You have to be very rich right now to travel to space. In other words, it should not be surprising that candidates for such a journey from oil-rich gulf countries are welcome. Prince of Saudi Arabia in 1985 Sultan bin Salman Al SaudAmerican STS-51-G Space Shuttle He traveled to space with his mission and succeeded in becoming the first Arab and the first Muslim to go into space.

Head of the Ax-2 mission, retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will be. Former racer who is a pilot John Shoffner will undertake. Although NASA has not yet approved the crew, according to sources close to the subject, there will be no problem in this regard.

Turkey will send astronauts to space

Companies like Axiom are for space travel. to find passengers it communicates with different countries, because the price of a seat reaches 55 million dollars. Turkey is among the countries that have made an agreement with the company to send a Turk to space for future missions.