RIYADH: Guinness World Records declared on Monday that the first female Arab astronaut had her historic spaceflight acknowledged.
Saudi Rayyanah Barnawi was a member of the Axiom Mission 2 crew, which took out on May 21, 2023, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Ali Al-Qarni, a fellow Saudi, was with her on a spacecraft that was headed for the International Space Station.
“This trip does not represent me alone, but rather the entire Arab world and all Saudis,” she stated in her first statement. We are now living out a goal that initially looked unattainable but has come true.
Following an eight-day stay aboard the International Space Station, Al-Qarni and Barnawi—the first Arab woman to orbit Earth—returned on May 31. They conducted 14 microgravity research projects there, three of which involved kite experiments conducted via satellite with 12,000 students from 47 locations throughout the Kingdom.
During her trip, part of the Saudi Astronaut Program, Barnawi accomplished numerous innovative research that included studying the response of immune cells and how microgravity impacts biological processes.
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