Africa’s first female cosmonaut can fly on Soyuz in 3-4 years

by time news

The flight of the first female African cosmonaut on the Russian Soyuz to the ISS can take place in 3-4 years, Saveliev, Deputy Director General of Roscosmos, told reporters.

Roscosmos and Tunisia on Friday intend to sign a memorandum on the flight of the first African woman to the ISS, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.

For 60 years of the space era, only one person from the African continent has visited space – South African citizen Mark Shuttleworth. In 2002, he traveled to space as the world’s second space tourist.

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