ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will send its first person to the space in 2022, announced the federal minister for science and technology here on Thursday.
Fawad Chaudhry took to Twitter to announce: “Proud to announce that selection process for the first Pakistani to be sent to space shall begin from Feb 2020,” he shared.
Proud to announce that selection process for the first Pakistani to be sent to Space shall begin from Feb 2020,fifty people will be shortlisted — list will then come down to 25 and in 2022 we will send our first person to space,this will be the biggest space event of our history
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) July 25, 2019
He said that selection process will begin from Feb 2020.