Al-Saud

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Al-Saud

Sultan Salman Abdel-aziz Al-Saud Status: Inactive. Trained as: Astronaut. Profession: Payload Specialist. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Single. Birth Date: 27 June 1956. Birth City: Riyad. Birth Country: Saudi Arabia. Nationality: Saudi. Group: Payload Specialist. Date Selected: 01 April 1985. Departed: 1985. Number of Flights: 1. Total Time: 7.07 days. Comments: Prince Sultan al-Saud was a member of the Saudi royal family and a pilot in the Saudi Air Force. He was named as a payload specialist in 1985 for deployment of Arabsat on shuttle mission STS-51-G.

Flight Log

STS-51-G - - 1985 Jun 17 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 7.07 days. Flight details: STS-51-G.
Deployed and retrieved Spartan 1; launched Morelos 1, Arabsat 1B, Telstar 3D.Payloads: Shuttle Pointed Autono-mous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN)-1; Automated Directional Solidification Furnace (ADSF); High Precision Tracking Experiment (HPTE); Orbiter Experiments (OEX); French Echocardiograph Experiment (FEE) and French Pocket Experiment (FPE).

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