List of Muslim astronauts
This is a list of Muslim astronauts who have traveled to space. In total, 11 Muslims (10 men and 1 woman) have been in space.

Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and Muslim to fly in outer space.

Anousheh Ansari, the first Muslimah in space.
List of Muslim astronauts
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Sultan bin Salman Al Saud[1] | STS-51-G (June 17, 1985) | First Muslim, first Saudi, first Arab in space |
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Muhammed Faris[2] | Mir EP-1 (July 22, 1987) | First Syrian in space |
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Musa Manarov[3] | Mir EO-3 (December 21, 1987) Soyuz TM-11 (December 2, 1990) |
First Azerbaijani in space. Total of 541 days in space |
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Abdul Ahad Mohmand[2] | Mir EP-3 (August 29, 1988) | First Afghan in space |
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Toktar Aubakirov[2] | Soyuz TM-13 (October 2, 1991) | First Kazakh in space |
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Talgat Musabayev[2] | Soyuz TM-19 (November 4, 1994) Soyuz TM-27 (August 25, 1998) Soyuz TM-32 (May 6, 2001) |
Second Kazakh in space,Total of 341 days in space |
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Salizhan Sharipov[2] | STS-89 (January 20, 1998) Expedition 10 (October 14, 2004) |
Total of 201 days in space |
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Anousheh Ansari[3] | Soyuz TMA-9 (September 18, 2006) | First female space tourist; first Muslim woman in space |
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Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor[2] | Soyuz TMA-11 (October 10, 2007) | First Malaysian Malay in space |
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Aidyn Aimbetov[2] | Soyuz TMA-18M (September 2, 2015) | Third Kazakh in space |
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Hazza Almansoori | Soyuz MS-15 (September 25, 2019) | First Emirati in space |
Praying towards Mecca in space
Malaysia's space agency, Angkasa, convened a conference of 150 Islamic scientists and scholars in 2006 to address the question, among others, of how to pray towards Mecca in space. A document was produced in early 2007 called A Guideline of Performing Ibadah (worship) at the International Space Station (ISS) and was approved by Malaysia's National Fatwa Council.[4]
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See also
- Angkasawan program
- List of Arab Astronauts
References
- A prince in space Archived May 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at Saudi Aramco World, January/February 1986, p20-29
- El-Maghraby, Tamer (19 March 2007). "Eight Muslims in Space and Counting". IslamOnline.net. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- "Nine Muslims in space" (PDF). The Brunei Times. July 23, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 26, 2011.
- Patrick Di Justo, "A Muslim Astronaut’s Dilemma — How to Face Mecca From Space", Wired, September 26, 2007
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