Who is the engineer, Mashael Al-Shammari, who won the first leadership position in astronautics?

Today, Sunday, the International Astronautical Federation announced that the representative of the Kingdom had won the position of Vice-President of the Federation, as engineer Mashael Al-Shamimary won the position. It has been frequent on social media and search engines for the past few hours, so let us explain to you the most important information about the engineer and what she won?

Who is the engineer, Mashael Al-Shamimary?

Engineer Mashael Al-Shamimary obtained a leadership position within the board of directors of astronautics, where she was nominated for the position and won it through the votes of 14 candidates from all over the world. A global space system, because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has an enhanced vision for the development of the space sector in the world and the development and strengthening of the Aeronautical Union and all its directives, noting that the union includes about 400 members from the countries of the world, and the engineer has won those votes for a number of reasons that come as follows:

• The Kingdom’s contribution and development to all policies and directives of the International Astronautical Federation.
• Strengthening the Kingdom’s maritime sector and developing international cooperation.
• Highlighting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a global leader in the space economy.

Biography of the engineer Mashael Al-Shammari

Who is the engineer, Mashael Al-Shamimary? she is an engineer Saudi She works in the field of spacecraft and missiles, as well as aircraft engineering. Prior to that, in 2015 she received the Inspirational Woman Award from the Arab Woman Award. She is the first Saudi woman to join the NASA space agency. She is Mashael bint Nasser Al-Shammari, a 37-year-old Saudi woman, who was born in 1984 And her profession is an aviation engineer, she is Saudi and her mother tongue is Arabic.

She obtained a BA in Applied Mathematics and also in Aeronautical Engineering, and then obtained a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering, where her research title was “Designing Safe Missiles to Send Humans to Mars”, whose mother school is the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, and engineer Mashael founded Her own company in 2010, for the design and manufacture of missiles, and has many researches in the development and manufacture of missiles.