Saudi Arabia says it plans to send first woman astronaut into space. Ryan Barnavi will spend 10 days on the International Space Station, reports France24.

It is noted that she will fly with her compatriot Ali Al-Karni on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.. The launch will take place this spring as part of the private mission Axiom Space.

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Together with them will go to the ISS, Peggy Whiston, a former NASA astronaut, for whom this will be the fourth flight to the international station, and John Schoffner, a businessman from Tennessee, who will act as a pilot..

With this mission, Saudi Arabia will succeed the UAE, which in 2019 became the first Arab country to send its citizens into space.. Then astronaut Hazzaa al-Mansouri spent eight days on the ISS. Another UAE astronaut, Sultan Al Neyadi, will also travel to the ISS later this month..

Earlier, the Russian state concern Roscosmos published a photo of the hole that appeared on the Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station.. This hole caused the ship's coolant to leak..