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Riyadh Season Attracts 2 Million Visitors in Two Weeks

The Season continues to attract millions of visitors since it launched three years ago -SPA
The Season continues to attract millions of visitors since it launched three years ago -SPA
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Riyadh Season Attracts 2 Million Visitors in Two Weeks

The Season continues to attract millions of visitors since it launched three years ago -SPA
The Season continues to attract millions of visitors since it launched three years ago -SPA

The number of visitors to the Riyadh Season 2023 reached 2 million within two weeks since its activities were launched under the slogan “Big Time” in its various areas and venues, which represent one of the most prominent entertainment options locally and globally.
The Season continues to attract millions of visitors since it launched three years ago, exceeding all expectations and fantasies of the audience in the entertainment activities it offers to them, according to SPA.
The Riyadh Season, with its combination of activities that vary between the world’s arts and cultures, games, and the latest innovations in various fields, brings together the residents and visitors of Saudi Arabia with high-quality entertainment experience characterized by the latest international standards, thereby satisfying their desires and needs.
The fourth annual Riyadh Season, under the slogan “Big Time,” offers a number of entertainment options and international experiences. It also attracts visitors from all over the world to the capital, Riyadh, during the winter months of each year to experience many concerts, exhibitions, and unique entertainment events during which an elite group of artists, celebrities and renowned brands participate.

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China Says its Astronauts Complete Record-breaking Spacewalk

File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
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China Says its Astronauts Complete Record-breaking Spacewalk

File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS

Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China's Manned Space Agency, marking another milestone for Beijing's rapidly expanding space program.

The spacewalk, carried out by Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong outside the Tiangong space station in low-Earth orbit on Tuesday, was at least four minutes longer than the last record set by NASA astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms in 2001, according to Reuters.

The two astronauts of China's Shenzhou-19 mission donned their Feitian spacesuits to carry out an array of tasks on the station's exterior, including the installation of space-debris protection devices, China's space agency said.

"They successfully completed all the planned tasks and felt very excited about it," Wu Hao, a staffer from the China Astronaut Research and Training Center, told China Central Television, a state broadcaster.

The former Soviet Union in 1965 became the first nation to carry out a spacewalk. Since then, Russia and the United States have conducted hundreds of such missions, primarily outside the International Space Station for tasks ranging from solar panel installations to materials research.

The first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut occurred in 2008.

China's spacewalking milestone this week comes amid a flurry of other recent cosmic achievements that have boosted Beijing's competitive footing with the United States.

China landed its first rover on Mars in 2021 and earlier this year became the first country to retrieve rock samples from the moon's treacherous far side in its Chang'e-6 mission.

Beijing is targeting 2030 to land its first astronauts on the moon to become the second country after the US to put humans there. Beijing has courted roughly a dozen countries for its International Lunar Research Station program, an effort to build a moon base on the moon's south pole.

That program rivals NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return US astronauts to the moon for the first time since the final Apollo mission of 1972.