Career record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
7d 1h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (born 27 June 1956) is a former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the American STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist, and a member of the House of Saud. He is thus the first member of a royal family to be an astronaut, and the first Arab and Muslim to fly in space.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-G — Payload Specialist · Success · June 17, 1985
Born 1956-06-27