MattyKatty t1_jdzkczt wrote on March 28, 2023 at 10:31 AM

Reply to comment by Doxbox49 in TIL that there are official guidelines for muslims to perform their rituals from space since 2007, when the first malaysian astronaut join the space station. by TonahVilla

Actually the funny thing is all I’m thinking is that Mission Control must hate having to schedule blocks 5 times a day for prayer. It makes me unsurprised it took so long for a Muslim to get ISS time

Doxbox49 t1_je2mwqq wrote on March 28, 2023 at 11:28 PM

So it has nothing to do with the fact that it’s mostly US and Russian personal manning it because we have/had the space programs? And Muslims don’t make up a large percentage of either population. Seems pretty straight forward why it took so long. But ya, religion, that’s why.

MattyKatty t1_je2t5wr wrote on March 29, 2023 at 12:14 AM

Russia is 10% Muslim, so I doubt that's true.