Pakistani woman going to space with Richard Branson

There will be dozens of ‘founder astronauts’ at the launch on Sunday, who acquired a ticket to journey to space in the earliest years after the Virgin Group was founded.

Namira Salim is one of them, with plans to launch early next year. She has been waiting for 15 years to launch and become Pakistan’s first astronaut.

Namira Salim, a Pakistani artist and diplomat who was the first Pakistani to visit to both the North and South Poles, will be the first Pakistani to journey into space shortly. “I’ve been encouraged to do more,” she told the Orlando Sentinel during a trip to Cocoa Beach to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

She’s on the right track with a $200,000 ticket on Virgin Galactic’s suborbital trips.

Salim, 44, was a founder member of billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism venture in 2006, when it was still in its early stages. She was one of tens of thousands of individuals who applied to go to the edge of space, and she spent a year negotiating to guarantee she was chosen.

She has continued to support space tourism and space privatisation in the 13 years since she made her deposit with Virgin. Her non-profit, Space Trust, was founded in 2015 to promote peace through space travel, and it organised the 0G Summit to promote worldwide space collaboration. It wants to hold the first peace summit in space by 2030.

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