Two muslims.
Not just the Saudi prince [gone up
aboard a shuttle in 1985], a Syrian
airforce fighter-pilot went up into orbit to one of the now-defunct Salyut space-stations onboard a Soyuz.
Here's an irony for this latest
Columbia shuttle mission: Had there been
serious engine-failure on the shuttle Columbia, 4-7 minutes after launch, the shuttle Columbia could have been forced
to make an emergency diversionary landing in Morocco...with the Israeli
astronaut onboard.
Jacob