Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM SpaceX sends Saudi astronauts, including first Arab woman, to ISS Sponsored by Saudi Arabia, Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher, is the first Arab woman to go to space. ADVERTISEMENT A private rocket carrying the first Arab woman astronaut has blasted off on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher from Saudi Arabia, was joined on Sunday’s mission by fellow Saudi Ali al-Qarni, a fighter pilot. ADVERTISEMENT The pair are the first Saudi astronauts to voyage into space in decades. They took off on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in the southern United States at 5:37pm local time (21:37 GMT). ADVERTISEMENT The team also includes Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who will be making her fourth flight to the

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Large asteroid to zoom between Earth and Moon On Saturday, the 2023DZ2 will come within a third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon. ADVERTISEMENT A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defence efforts, according to the European Space Agency. ADVERTISEMENT The asteroid, named 2023 DZ2, is estimated to be 40 to 70 metres (130 to 230 feet) wide, roughly the size of the Parthenon, and big enough to wipe out a large city if it hit our planet. ADVERTISEMENT At 19:49 GMT on Saturday, it will come within a third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon, said Richard Moissl, the head of the ESA’s planetary defence office. ADVERTISEMENT Though that is “very close”, there is nothing to worry a