Saudi astronauts to head to International Space Station on May 8
The four-person Ax-2 crew will spend 10 days at the station conducting research and educational outreach activities.
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The four-person Ax-2 crew will spend 10 days at the station conducting research and educational outreach activities.
The outcome of this experiment will help develop weather control technology to generate artificial rain in future human settlements on the Moon and Mars.
The two mission specialists, Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi from Saudi Arabia, are members of the inaugural Saudi national astronaut programme.
For the Ax-2 mission, Axiom Space will submit four proposed crew members and four backup crew to the stations Multilateral Crew Operations Panel for review.
