NASA and the muslim world

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Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

In space...how will they determine the qiblah?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibla

The Qiblah from space
In April 2006, Malaysian National Space Agency (Angkasa), the Malaysian space agency, sponsored a conference[3] of scientists and religious scholars to address the issue of how the Qiblah should be determined when one is in orbit. The conference concluded that the astronaut should determine the location of the qibala "according to [their] capability".[4] There have already been several Muslim astronauts, among them the very first being Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the latest being the first Muslim woman in space Anousheh Ansari and the Malaysian angkasawan Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has stated that one should face the direction of the Earth.