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Anousheh Ansari Blogs From Space
gevmage writes "Anousheh Ansari, founder of the X Prize and the fourth 'space tourist' to the International Space Station is going to be writing a blog during her several day visit, which began this last Wednesday. She says in the current entry that her submissions are batched and she doesn't have a live browser to read comments." From the post: "The next morning when I woke up, I was so excited I slipped out of my bag quickly and flew head down to the Descent Module and flipped around and flew right back up to the Habitation Compartment. As soon as I stopped I realized that what I did was not a good idea! I felt my internal organs doing a cha-cha inside my belly ... I stopped and tried to minimize my movements. I basically become a mummy from that point forward. I only did very small slow movements and even that would make me feel really sick ..."
Seriously, she is hot and likes space. :D :D
Actually, she (like all other cosmonauts) went through several months of training in Russia before the launch.
Not to nitpick or lessen her contribution to the X-prize, but she was NOT a founder, she was the person who coughed up the money fairly close to the end to actually pay for the prize. I don't believe she had anything to do with founding it.
The Astronauts are almost all Radio Amateurs and there's both voice &
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data Amateur Radio equipment to toy with up there (& lots of classes
of school kids happy to speak with a Space Traveller.
For a real buzz (ie, after viewing Earth from Space & all the Science
experiments has been done), this Space Tourist should really try to
make a connection or three with some Muslim schools; I think it would
even be a first (as most of the schools that are selected from the
queue are from USA, I understand).
If anyone can get the suggestion up there to her, maybe she'll be kind
enough to give such schools (or any schools or other Hams she might
find on-the-air, for that matter) a Big Thrill, as well as a model of
what's possible - these days - for a woman of means to do.
Oh, for those who'd like to listen to on-air chats with the ISS, the
place to go for dates/times, frequencies & pass predictions is:
http://heavens-above.com/
Eg, select your location - eg, someplace in United Arab Emerates - & go
- from the selection page to a page like this one:
http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.asp?lat=25.7
It's also possible to display info for LOTS of Amateur Radio equipped
satellites which are likely 'visible' from your location, eg, here:
http://heavens-above.com/amateursats.asp?lat=25.7
(Not knowing any place names in the UAR, I just picked one from the list that came up,
in response to my entering "*" for Town/City, to get each of the following URLs.)
Enjoy & let us know what you hear!
If you've read other cosmo/astronauts reports you should be aware that many of them get motion/space sick during the early phases of their ride or stay on the station.
// hdw
It's not something special with the PSE/Tourists/Cargo, it happens to the pros too.
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Correct. The ISS actually succeeds in knowing how to fly in the Douglass Adams sense because it continously throws itself at the Earth, but misses.
It amazes me sometimes that many people actually think there is no gravitational force in space. A 6371 km radius Earth, and somehow a mere 400 km more and gravity ceases? Obviously it does not compute.