NationStates Jolt Archive

The fourth space tourist has arrived at the International Space Station. It's almost a routine event for someone to shell out few million dollars and get a trip to outer space. That's cool. It makes "Outward Bound" and Philmont look like day camps.

Along with the X-prize and the Rocket Racing league, we really are headed into the future.


KOROLYOV, Russia - The capsule carrying the first paying female space tourist docked smoothly at the international space station Wednesday.
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Officials at Russia's Mission Control applauded as the ship carrying Iranian-born American telecommunications entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria parked at the orbiting station.

Iranians in space! This must be something to do with wiping Israel off the map!

And where is my treadmill sidewalk built several stories in the air :mad:

I want to go into space. :(

Damnit, no Jews...I was waiting for the obligatory Mel Brooks reference...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/20/russia.space.ap/index.html

"For Anousheh, we prepared a week's supply of white women's underpants of cambric cotton and several undershirts and also some other women's accessories," the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Alexander Yarov, director of the Kentavr-Nauka company that makes clothing for cosmonauts, as saying.

The report said that Ansari was not allowed to take along makeup "but in the opinion of her men colleagues, even without decorative cosmetics she is very attractive and photogenic."

Yes, I'm the lone, attractive woman travelling to a tin can in space occupied by five or six men who haven't had sex in a few months...