Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

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Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Country: Saudi Arabia
selected on April 1985
Calls: 1 space flight
Begin: June 17, 1985
Landing: June 24, 1985
Time in space: 7d 1h 38min
retired on June 1985
Space flights

Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( Arabic سلطان بن سلمان بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, DMG Sulṭan bin Salmān bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Saʿūd ; * June 27, 1956 in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia ) is the son of Salman ibn Abd al-Aziz , who has been King of Saudi Arabia since 2015, and grandson of the founder of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ibn Saud and his favorite wife Hasa bint Sudairi . He is the first and so far only space traveler in his country, was the first Muslim in space and the youngest participant in a space shuttle mission.

Life

He was born in 1956 as the son of Salman ibn Abd al-Aziz, who later became King of Saudi Arabia. After attending elementary and secondary schools in Riyadh , he received his bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Denver , Colorado and his masters from Syracuse University on the East Coast of the United States, where he studied social and political science at the Maxwell School .

First he worked for the Ministry of Information in his country and in 1984 was responsible for the Saudi Arabian Information Committee for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . As part of an international crew that also included American and French astronauts , Al Saud was the first Arab to fly into space on June 17, 1985. He represented the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (ARABSAT) on the STS-51G mission with the US space shuttle Discovery . The mission ended after seven days. He then became a founding member of the Association of Space Explorers .

Al Saud later served as a scheduled airline pilot and director of the Saudi Arabian Commercial Television Office. Through his father, the owner of the newspaper Asharq al-Awsat (Arabic: الشرق الاوسط, translated: The Middle East), he is connected to one of the largest Arabic-language daily newspapers in the world. The newspaper serves as a mouthpiece for the Free Syrian Army during the civil war in Syria . Through his brother Faisal, who controls the Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG), he is connected to the largest media company in the Middle East.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Salman receives Space Explorers Award and Order of ASE in Beijing , on mt.gov.sa , September 14, 2014, accessed on May 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ Sadr loyalists fighting alongside Assad forces- Free Syrian Army . Asharq al-Awsat , November 22, 2011, archived on August 31, 2019.
  3. ↑ Hezbollah fighters in Syria, carrying out raids . Asharq al-Awsat on May 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ GulfBase: The Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG). Archived from the original on November 29, 2010 ; accessed on February 26, 2011 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Al Saud, Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prince of Saudi Arabia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian pilot and spaceman
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Riad