UAE's 1st long-duration astronaut will spend Ramadan in space
Al-Neyadi told reporters on Jan. 25 that he may need to keep a relatively consistent meal schedule during the mission, as he is not able to do activities"that can jeopardize the mission or maybe put the crewmember in a risk.
Fasting during space missions has happened before during Ramadan. The first-ever Muslim in space, Prince Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, launched on the last day of the holy month on June 17, 1985, on the weeklongThe selection process for Al-Saud was complicated. Back then, NASA had a shuttle position called a"payload specialist" that allowed countries or companies to fly non-career astronauts for limited duties — to supervise experiments or other tech, for example.
A multinational coalition was launching the satellite Arabsat-1B aboard that shuttle mission, and Saudi Arabia was voted as the nation to launch a representative. The coalition, working with limited training time available before launch, selected Al-Saud based on his 1,000-plus hours of pilot flight time and his fluency in English , according to the. At the time of Al-Saud's selection, he was working as an official with the Saudi Ministry of Information.
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