First Russian space tourist to fly in 2009
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A Russian spacecraft will deliver the  first Russian space tourist to the International Space Station  (ISS) in 2009, the head of the national space agency Roskosmos  said on Friday.
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SPACE.com / A Russian spacecraft carrying two astronauts and the world's  first female space tourist rocked safely back to Earth while dangling from parachutes today a few hours after casting off from the International Space Station (ISS).
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A Russian Soyuz craft carrying millionaire space tourist Anousheh Ansari and two astronauts docked with the International Space Station, live footage shown at ground control at Korolev outside Moscow showed.
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Russia plans to stop giving American astronauts free rides on its spacecraft to the international space station beginning in 2006, the head of Russia&#39;s space agency said.
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NEAR ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - A Russian capsule   landed in the Kazakh steppe on Friday, returning to earth   Anousheh Ansari who is the first female tourist, the first   female Muslim and the first Iranian-born person to enter space.
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A Soyuz craft left its docking port at the international space station on Sunday, starting a return trip to Earth with two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler aboard.
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First Iranian in space Russia's Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this Monday morning (04:09 GMT), notching up three "firsts" in the process. The pod atop the rocket carried Anousheh Ansari, and when the rocket entered orbit, she became the first female space tourist, as well as the first female Muslim and the first Iranian in space.â¦
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A Chinese businessman has paid $200,000 (about 103,000 pounds) to become his country's first space tourist, hoping for lift-off some time by the end of 2008.
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WASHINGTON - Two Russian cosmonauts and South Korea's first astronaut are gearing up for a planned April launch to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The world's first female space tourist has launched her multi-million dollar adventure, blasting off with two professional astronauts from the Baikonur cosmodrome bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
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Russia launched Thursday a satellite designed to test the feasibility of the world&#39;s first space hotel, the brainchild of a Las Vegas hotel tycoon who hopes to begin construction in 2011, officials said.
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A grocery tycoon and politician who planted a flag on the North Pole&#39;s seabed last month will now go into orbit as the first Russian space tourist, leading business daily Vedomosti said on Monday.
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Blog: Space Adventures says it's booked two added passenger seats for orbital flights on the Russian Soyuz rocket in the coming years, upping its commitment in the tourist space-flight market.
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Richard Branson, Britain&#39;s best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds ($198,600).
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The world's first female astronaut  Valentina Tereshkova, marking her 70th birthday on Tuesday,  says she still dreams of flying to Mars -- even on a one-way  ticket.
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV  KOROLYOV, Russia - The space capsule carrying a new U.S.-Russian crew and the first paying female space tourist docked smoothly Wednesday at the international space station.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft   was set to blast off on Monday carrying a woman who will   accomplish a trio of space firsts: the first female tourist,   first female Muslim, and first Iranian in orbit.