Anousheh Ansari bumped up in space tourism

[Righ]

Sponsor of the Ansari X-Prize contest won by Burt Rutan, Anousheh Ansari will fly on the Soyuz TMA-9 to the ISS for ten days next month:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5278190.stm

[Signe]

Cool.  Some people know what to do with daddy's dosh.  Now he might not have enough left over to fund terrorism.  She's an American hero!

[Righ]

The family money probably comes from hubby and brother-in-law, all in the telecoms game together. There's probably more than enough left over for them to fund the sorts of telecoms legislation that leaves the companies rolling in all the loot liberated from the consumers.

[Tale]

I just wanted to post this because it made me LOL that Wikipedia has a tag for "This article documents a person who is currently in space." - it's {{In Space}}

Pretty cool to have a female Iranian-American Muslim paying her way into spaceflight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari

(if you want an actual news article: link)

[Righ]

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=8026.0

:)

[Ironwood]

"Tourists in Space :  Because Teachers in Space went so well...."

 

[Tale]

She is writing a blog from space. Good, powerful reading. She's got a bad case of space-sickness too.

http://spaceblog.xprize.org/