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X-Prize Funder Will Be First Female Tourist In Space

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-no-woman-has-gone-before dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Reuters has the news that Anousheh Ansari, the funder of the X Prize, has been named as the first female tourist in space. She'll be going up in mid-September after a Japanese entrepeneur was deemed unfit for the trip." From the article: "Ansari, a 39-year-old chairwoman and co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., a digital home technology company, will be the world's fourth space tourist. 'Anousheh Ansari has been officially named to the Soyuz TMA-9 primary crew,' Space Adventures, working in partnership with Russia's space agency Roskosmos to launch space tourists, said in a statement."

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  1. Insert chauvanistic remark here by UberG�ber · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Just don't let her drive.

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  2. Gotta say it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The shuttle will now be pulling over every half an hour so she can go to the bathroom and stretch her legs.

    1. Re:Gotta say it... by BrunoBigfoot · · Score: 2, Funny

      Really? I never would have guessed. I thought the joke was taking stereotypical male complaints about stereotypical female behaviour while road travelling and finding the space travel equivalent. But then again, I am fairly familiar with face-value humour.

    2. Re:Gotta say it... by slashbob22 · · Score: 1, Funny

      I personally hope she doesn't nag the pilot to death.

      - You're going to fast,
      - Watch out for that satellite
      - Meteors these days, No respect anymore

      I kidd and I for one welcome our space visiting overlord. Everyone practice now - "Yes, Dear".

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  3. Re:To all you geeks knocking her by BrunoBigfoot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps they consider Shuttleworth to be more Shuttle-worthy.

  4. Re:First post, man. by SigILL · · Score: 2, Funny
    I GOT FIRST PoST!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

    From space?
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  5. As a woman, I gotta say "Cool!" by Mistshadow2k4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But as a nerd, I gotta say "It would be even cooler if she were going to head a project afterward to make a great, totally free Linux distro".

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  6. Gotta say... by owlnation · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMG!!!!11!! Space Ponies!!!1!

  7. Attractive too... by BlueCoder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing more to say, she's hot.