Kuwait: A ranking Kuwaiti astronomer and historian said yesterday that the International Space Station (ISS) will cross Kuwait’s sky today at 6.10pm (local time) on its way to the north-east hemisphere.
“People living in Kuwait can see the ISS clearly with the naked eye at that time,” said Adel Al Sadoun in statements to Kuna.
The ISS is an orbiting laboratory and construction site that synthesises the scientific expertise of 16 nations to maintain a permanent human outpost in space.
While floating some 390km above Earth’s surface, the space station has hosted a rotating international crew since November 2000.
Astronauts and supplies are ferried by the U S space shuttles and the Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft.
Al Sadoun pointed out that the ISS was placed in orbit around the Earth in 1998. It is funded and managed by an international consortium comprising the US, Russia and the group consisting European and Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and Brazil.
Truck crashes into Saudi airport lounge killing two
JEDDAH: A service truck crashed into a passenger lounge of Jeddah international airport in Saudi Arabia, killing two Iranian pilgrims and injuring four others, reports said yesterday.
The truck, driven by a Nepalese man, careened through the glass panes of the King Abdulaziz International Airport terminal on Thursday, the reports said, citing the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority. The Iranians had been waiting to board a flight to Tehran after pilgrimages to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah.
Iran’s Arabic-language Al Alam television said the two passengers who died were in their sixties and that two of the four injured were treated on the spot and able to travel, while the other two were hospitalised.
Agencies
