ISLAMABAD
\nPrime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has extended best wishes to Namira Salim for her upcoming Galactic 04 space mission on Friday.
\nIn a tweet Wednesday, the Prime Minister said Namira Saleem will be making history by becoming first Pakistani woman astronaut to travel to space.
\nHe said Pakistani women are making the whole nation proud by proving their mettle as trailblazers in multiple fields.
\nPakistan\u2019s first astronaut Namira Salim has started training in the United States for her space journey.
\nShe said that on the first day of training, she and other astronauts learnt about fitting spacesuits and parachutes to perfection.
\nIn her statement issued from United States, she said, \u201cWe are also trained about the functionality of our custom-made seats in the spaceship and how to fasten and unfasten our seat belts so we leave our seats in zero gravity well oriented and take the necessary steps to maximise our experience in space.\u201d
\n\u201cWe have also learnt to make gentle movements not to bump into windows or fellow astronauts and how to naturally drift when floating in zero gravity,\u201d she said.
\nThere will be more exciting second day of training tomorrow (Thursday) and it will be full of surprises, she said.
\nNamira Salim is the first woman from Pakistan, who also has the honour of hoisting the national flag at both the North and South poles.
\nSalim recently met caretaker Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi before her departure to the US for her onward journey to space.
\nNamira is determined to raise the Pakistani flag in space as her journey is a sign of Pakistan\u2019s growing presence in space exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has extended best wishes to Namira Salim for her upcoming Galactic 04 space mission on Friday. In a tweet Wednesday, the Prime Minister said Namira Saleem will be making history by becoming first Pakistani woman astronaut to travel to space. He said Pakistani women are making the whole nation proud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n