WASHINGTON: Adventurer Namira Salim became the first Pakistani to travel into space on Friday, riding aboard Virgin Galatic's fifth successful flight ...
Filepix: Namira Salim, the first Pakistani woman astronaut, speaks during a press conference in Islamabad on August 17, 2006/AFPPix: Adventurer Namira Salim became the first Pakistani to travel into space on Friday, riding aboard Virgin Galatic's fifth successful flight in five months, the US company announced.
“I love my title ‘first Pakistani astronaut’, it’s like being a very special princess of the country. Maybe nicer than being a princess,“ Salim told AFP in 2012.That makes her the first person from Monaco and the first Emirati woman to travel to space, the company said. The mothership then releases the spaceplane, which in turn engages its thrusters to soar into space at speeds approaching Mach-3.
The craft then glided back down, landing just over an hour after takeoff from Spaceport in New Mexico.
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