The team will carry out 14 experiments focused on human research, cell sciences, and cloud seeding experiments in the microgravity environment.
Saudi astronauts
Rayyannah Barnawi and Ali Al-Qarni are now in the mandatory quarantine period before the launch to the International Space Station.
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 astronauts Barnawi and Al-Qarni will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission.
