Rayyanah Barnawi is one of two Saudis on Axiom Space's second private mission, which took off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the U.S. She hopes to inspire women from all backgrounds in the Middle East.
The first female Arab astronaut to go to space has arrived at the International Space Station .
, she said: "To the people around the world, the future is very bright. I would like you to dream big, believe in yourselves and believe in humanity." Ms Barnawi's experiments will be based on some of the work she has done over the past nine years as a research lab technician at the Stem Cell and Tissue Re-engineering Programme of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh.At a recent news conference, she said that becoming the first female Saudi astronaut to go to space was "a great pleasure and honour that I'm very happy to carry".
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