The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The
third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we
were aware of only one Earth.
--Sultan bin
Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud
Sultan bin
Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud is an astronaut and a payload specialist in NASA nomenclature. He
is a grandson of King Iban and was in 1985 the first and remains to this day
the only Saudi citizen in space. He was also the first Arab, the first Muslim and the
first member of royalty
in space