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Two Saudi astronauts landed on Earth after completing a successful eight-day AX-2 mission on the International Space Station (ISS).
Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali Al Qarni made history as the first Saudi citizens to go on a mission to the orbiting outpost.
Thirty-three-old Barnawi has also become the first Arab woman to go to space.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule, which was carrying two Saudi astronauts and two American astronauts, made a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at 7:04 a.m. GST.
The AX,2 crew, which also included Americans, Peggy Whitson and John Shoffner.
In a series of tweets, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) published a number of videos of the successful landing of the “Dragon” spacecraft after a 12-hour flight from the ISS.
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