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Iranian-American Woman In Line To Be Next Space Tourist
Moscow (AFP) May 08, 2006 A US national of Iranian origin could be the first female space tourist and may travel aboard a Russian vessel to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2007, Russia's space agency Roskosmos said Friday. "We have signed a preliminary contract with (Anoushe) Ansari under which she is training as a back-up for Japanese space tourist Daisuke Enomoto," Alexei Krasnov, in charge of manned space flights, was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying. "It's not excluded that she will herself leave for the ISS in spring 2007," Krasnov said. Ansari, the 38-year-old head of Telecom Technologies in the United States, left Iran when she was 17. Ansari and Enomoto on Friday toured the Soyuz spacecraft that will take the 34-year-old Japanese Internet entrepreneur to space in September, ITAR-TASS reported. Enomoto will pay some 20 million dollars (15.7 million euros) to be the fourth space tourist to blast off for the International Space Station.
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AAS Pushing NASA To Rethink Its FY 2007 Budget
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2006The American Astronomical Society, unsatisfied with some of the specifics of NASA's proposed fiscal year 2007 budget, has been urging the agency to rethink its priorities and reconstitute some of the space science programs it had decided to eliminate, postpone or curtail. |
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