Space station welcomes 2 Saudi visitors, including kingdom’s 1st female astronaut

The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdoms first female astronaut..

SpaceXs chartered flight arrived at the orbiting lab less than 16 hours after blasting off from Florida..

The 270-mile-high (430-kilometer-high) docking puts the space station population at 11, representing not only Saudi Arabia and the U.S., but the United Arab Emirates and Russia..

This shows how space brings everyone together, said Saudi Arabias first female astronaut, Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher..

Only one other Saudi had flown before in space, a prince who rode on NASAs shuttle Discovery in 1985...