Saudi astronaut says space research can speed up medical treatment

Saudi astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi said that space exploration benefits many sectors, including agriculture, medicine, health, law, accounting, and others, by enabling better outcomes in these fields.

Speaking in an interview with Al Ekhbariya channel, she added that advanced laboratories and health centers in the Kingdom can accelerate the pace of treatment by utilizing space research.

The Saudi Space Agency and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) recently launched the first biological samples of their kind in the Middle East into space, as part of the BioGravity 1 mission on SpaceX CRS-35 to the International Space Station.

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