Rocket Carrying Female Space Tourist Lifts Off
From Times Wire Reports
A Russian-built rocket carrying the world’s first female space tourist lifted off today on a flight to the International Space Station.
Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian American telecommunications entrepreneur from Dallas, was accompanied by a U.S.-Russian crew on the Soyuz TMA-9 capsule. She paid a reported $20 million to become the fourth private astronaut to take a trip on a Russian spacecraft to the station.
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