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Praying in Outer Space

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How can a Muslim astronaut face Mecca and pray?

That's the problem facing Malaysia's space agency as it prepares to send the country's first astronaut into orbit in 2007, Reuters reports. According to Zainol Abidin Abdul Rashid of Malaysia's space science institute, "following Earth time and facing in the direction of Earth are the key elements to solving the problem".

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