Iranian-born woman to be space tourist
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Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them.
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Science & environment: Flight goes ahead despite thermal shield cracks as two missions are headed by women for first time.
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The first paying female space tourist said Friday she felt a little queasy on her rocket ride to the international space station but she since has been enjoying every minute of her cosmic trip.
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A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off Monday in Kazakhstan on a flight to the international space station.
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The first female space tourist is  enjoying her stay on the International Space Station (ISS) and  is passing her time by taking photos of the view, a German  astronaut told a news conference in a live link-up on Friday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first paying female space tourist said Friday she felt a little queasy on her rocket ride to the international space station but she since has been enjoying every minute of her cosmic trip.
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space
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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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A Russian-built rocket carrying a new U.S.-Russian crew for the international space station, along with the world's first female space tourist, was set for blastoff from the desolate steppes of Kazakhstan on Monday.
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying the world's first woman space tourist and the two crew members of the 13th International Space Station mission landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, the control centre said.
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A 17-year-old schoolgirl is to become the first Nigerian to experience a space flight.
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Like millions of people fascinated by space, Anousheh Ansari said Wednesday she remembers wondering as a child if somebody else like her could be out there among the stars. Next month the Iranian-born U.S. entrepreneur can get a closer look, as she rides a Russian capsule to the international space station and becomes the first female space tourist.
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Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background &#151; high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot &#151; seemed to equip her for the challenge. Yet as she and some of her acquaintances acknowledged, the stresses on her and her family were extraordinarily intense.
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The first female space tourist lands in northern Kazakhstan after a 10-day visit to the International Space Station.
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US astronaut Sunita Williams has now spent more time walking in space than any other woman.
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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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The world's next space tourist, Hungarian-born US billionaire Charles Simonyi, will blast off on his journey to the International Space Station on April 7, Russia's space agency said.