By: Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)– A personal flight bring 2 Saudi astronauts and other guests went back to Earth late Tuesday night after a nine-day journey to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)– A personal flight bring 2 Saudi astronauts and other guests went back to Earth late Tuesday night after a nine-day journey to the International Space Station.
The SpaceX pill bring the 4 parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, simply off the Florida panhandle, 12 hours after undocking from the orbiting laboratory.
The Saudi federal government got the multimillion-dollar tab for its 2 astronauts: Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell scientist who ended up being the very first Saudi female in area; and fighter pilot Ali al-Qarni.
Barnawi cleaned away tears as she finished up her experiments and prepared to leave the spaceport station.
“Every story pertains to an end and this is just the start of a brand-new age for our nation and our area,” she stated Monday.
A Knoxville, Tennessee, business owner who began a race cars and truck group, John Shoffner, paid his own method to the spaceport station.
The ticket-holders were accompanied by retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who now works for the Houston business that chartered the flight, Axiom Space.
They soared into orbit recently on Axiom's 2nd chartered flight to the spaceport station. The business prepares to send out up more customers by year's end.
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