{"id":324760,"date":"2023-02-13T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=324760"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:31:46","slug":"saudis-to-send-its-first-woman-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudis-to-send-its-first-woman-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudis to send its first woman into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh \u2013 <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> chose its <strong>first woman astronaut<\/strong> to go into space, state media has reported. Rayyana Barnawi will join fellow Saudi male astronaut Ali Al-Qarni on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) during the <strong>second quarter of 2023<\/strong>, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Sunday (12). The astronauts \u201cwill join the crew of the AX-2 space mission\u201d and the space flight will \u201claunch from the United States,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi leader prince Mohammed bin Salman has been trying to shake off the kingdom&#8217;s austere image through a push for reforms. Since his rise to power in 2017, women have been allowed to drive and to travel abroad without a male guardian, and their proportion in the workforce has more than doubled since 2016, from 17% to 37%.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s foray into space is not the first, however. In 1985, Saudi royal prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, an air-force pilot, took part in a US-organized space mission, becoming the first Arab Muslim to travel into space. In 2018, the country set up the Saudi Space Authority and last year launched a program to send astronauts into space.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Any reproduction of this content is prohibited.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-324756\">Saudi Space<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rayyana Barnawi will join astronaut Ali Al-Qarni on a mission to the International Space Station during the second quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":324756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,3066],"tags":[38852,38855,32336,10374,38854,14234,8155,38856,38857,38853],"class_list":{"0":"post-324760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-innovation","8":"category-society","9":"tag-astronaut-saudi-arabia","10":"tag-mission-into-space","11":"tag-mulheres-sauditas-2-en","12":"tag-mulheres-sauditas","13":"tag-outer-space","14":"tag-saudi-women","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-space-women","17":"tag-travel-into-space","18":"tag-women-saudi-arabia"},"wps_subtitle":"Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rayyana Barnawi will join astronaut Ali Al-Qarni on a mission to the International Space Station during the second quarter of 2023.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}