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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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    The Geek shall inherit the Earth
  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.

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

    Perhaps they consider Shuttleworth to be more Shuttle-worthy.