About Abdulmohsen Al-Bassam
Born 1948. Abdulmohsen Al-Bassam is a Saudi fighter pilot, astronaut and royal Saudi Air Force.
Abdulmohsen Hamad Al-Bassam is a retired Royal Saudi Air Force officer and a former astronaut. He was the back-up payload specialist for Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on STS-51-G.
He was born on December 12, 1948, in Unayzah, Saudi Arabia.
He graduated from King Faisal Air Academy in Riyadh (Bachelor of Science in Air Science) and was a fighter pilot with the Royal Saudi Air Force. Selected in April 1985, he served as the back-up payload specialist for STS-51-G Discovery (June 17–24, 1985) on which Arabsat-1B was deployed. With the conclusion of this flight, he retired from active duty as a payload specialist. He later served as the Air Force Attache at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in London, United Kingdom.
He is married and has two sons and three daughters.
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Saudi Arabian aviator
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Abdulmohsen Al-Bassam was born on 12 December 1948 in Unaizah.
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Abdulmohsen Al-Bassam is a fighter pilot, astronaut and royal Saudi Air Force.
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Abdulmohsen Al-Bassam is Saudi.
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