Rayyannah Barnawi and Ali Al-Qarni are now in the mandatory quarantine period before the launch to the International Space Station.
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Ali al-Qarni and Rayyanah Barnawi will part of the four-man crew Axiom-2 mission to blast off in May from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The four-person Ax-2 crew will spend 10 days at the station conducting research and educational outreach activities.
The outcome of this experiment will help develop weather control technology to generate artificial rain in future human settlements on the moon and Mars.
Six of the 14 experiments will be conducted in the brain and nervous system, and four will be conducted in immune cells.
The two mission specialists, Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi from Saudi Arabia, are members of the inaugural Saudi national astronaut programme.
The astronauts Barnawi and Al-Qarni will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission.
The 10-day mission will conduct commercial and non-profit research and other activities at the station.
Axiom Space is working with Saudi Space Commission to send two astronauts from the kingdom, including the first Saudi woman to go into orbit.
The initiative was part of its efforts to prepare future astronauts and engineers, and attract talent through quality training programmes.
