Morocco joins the Artemis Accords for space exploration collaboration with the US

New Morocco–U.S. program trains students to build and launch mini satellites

Neurosurgeon Joudia Touri, another Moroccan woman competing for a space mission with SERA

Joudia Touri, a 31-year-old Moroccan neurosurgeon, is competing for a seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket through the SERA program, which offers suborbital flights to citizens from countries with little or no space presence. She sees the mission as both a childhood dream and an opportunity to link her work in medicine with the future of space exploration, while carrying Morocco’s flag into an uncharted field.

The student hoping to be the first Moroccan in space wants to help astronauts eat healthy

Amina Belkhayat, a 22-year-old mechanical engineering student from Casablanca, is competing for a seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard through the SERA program, aiming to become the first Moroccan in space. Alongside her studies and outreach platform Space Darija, she researches space food security using medicinal plants and advocates for the creation of a Moroccan space agency.

Moroccan university launches two nanosatellites into space

Diaspo #139 : Taha Shisseh, a young Moroccan researcher at NASA

Passionate about space and stars, Taha Shisseh has seen his dreams come true. Settled down in the United States, the researcher is expected to finish his PhD in August in Morocco, then carry on his research in asteroids and meteorites.

Do the meteorites that fell in Morocco 20 years ago carry a sign for life beyond earth ?

Smashed into the earth of Morocco 20 years ago, scientists reveal that these meteorites contain liquid water, hydrocarbons and amino acids. Do these meteorites carry a sign for life beyond earth ?