Rabat, April 1 -- Rihab Sadik, 27, attended the launching of t he International Space Station (ISS) crew members who went on a spacewalk last Friday to repair the space station's old batteries.

Sadik, an ISS Biomedical Flight Controller and Medical Operations Data Specialist at NASA Johnson Space Center, was part of the ISS team that attended the launch of two astronauts, NASA's Christina Koch and Nick Hague on March 29.

Koch and Hague completed a seven-hour spacewalk, replacing the six nickel-hydrogen batteries with new lithium-ion batteries to upgrade and maintain the ISS which serves as a space environment research laboratory. Crew members conduct experiments in biology, physics, astronomy, and other fields.

As a biomedical controll...