Pakistani mission Namira Saleem departs on historic area journey

After ready 17 years to meet her dream, Dubai-based Pakistani adventurer Namira Saleem will take off on a personal industrial area flight at present, changing into the nation’s first feminine astronaut to be part of the historic journey. will likely be

Virgin Galactic, a personal spaceflight firm based in California in 2004, will launch its fourth spaceflight subsequent month, carrying three area vacationers from the US, UK and Pakistan.

Namira Saleem from Pakistan will make historical past by changing into the primary Pakistani girl to journey to area.

She’s going to take off at present at 6 pm native time for an area tour.

Namira Saleem paid 200,000 {dollars} to purchase a ticket for area journey in 2006, and now its present value is 450,000 {dollars}.

Namira Salim instructed Arab Information in an interview that ‘in January 2006 I signed a contract with Virgin Galactic and acquired a ticket, however who knew then that it will take 17 years to meet this dream. ‘

He had additional mentioned that ‘Final week I visited Pakistan to formally obtain the inexperienced flag, it is going to be an honor for me to boost my inexperienced flag.’

He had instructed in an interview that ‘in area journey mission we are going to go outdoors the Earth’s orbit following which come once more once more, usually it takes regarding 9 to 11 minutes to launch a rocket from Earth, however our area journey is exclusive as a result of our spacecraft will likely be carried as much as 50,000 ft by a particular mothership, following which launched into area by a rocket motor engine.’

Namira Saleem additionally holds the excellence of being the primary Pakistani girl to achieve the North Pole in April 2007 and the South Pole in January 2008.

Not solely this, Namira Saleem additionally has the distinction of being the primary Asian and the primary Pakistani girl to skydive on Mount Everest in 2008. She was additionally awarded the Medal of Distinction in 2011.

The feminine astronaut was additionally awarded the Femina Center East Girls Award in 2016 for her ardour and fervour for area exploration.

Namira Salim mentioned that ‘I all the time say that area is in my DNA, following I was very younger I used to inform my dad and mom to not let me play with toys, I wish to go to area and following I was 14 years previous. My father purchased me a telescope for the primary time.