The second-ever private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), organised by Axiom Space, blasted off from Florida on Sunday, carrying the first two Saudi astronauts to travel to the orbiting laboratory. Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher, is the first Saudi woman to voyage into space and is joined on the mission by fellow Saudi Ali Al-Qarni, a fighter pilot. The Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) crew took off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in the southern US state of Florida at 5:37pm (2137 GMT). The team also includes Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who will be making her fourth flight to the ISS, and
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