Saudi Arabia's historic private space mission to the ISS with diverse crew.
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Retired astronaut Peggy Whitson, former chief of NASA's astronaut corps, is set to blast off on her fourth flight Sunday as commander of the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Freedom" on a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station chartered by Axiom Space and sanctioned by NASA. She will be joined by retired businessman and adventurer John Shoffner, and two Saudi Arabian astronauts: F-16 fighter pilot Ali Alqarni and biomedical researcher Rayyanah Barnawi. During their eight-day stay, they plan to carry out 20 research projects, 14 of them developed by Saudi scientists, that range from human physiology and cell biology to technology development.
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