Serious question... has anyone figured out how you do a salat in orbit? How do you prostrate? Which direction to face Mecca, if you're going around the planet at a speed you'd have to spin yourself like a compass to match? Can there be an exemption, given the State's religious obligations?
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Serious question... has anyone figured out how you do a salat in orbit? How do you prostrate? Which direction to face Mecca, if you're going around the planet at a speed you'd have to spin yourself like a compass to match? Can there be an exemption, given the State's religious obligations?