Women In Space
Monday, August 28, 2006
No, that's not the title of a movie your spouse wouldn't want you to watch on Spectrovision, it's about the first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari. She's the co-founder of some digital dot thingamabob and is going to fork over $20M USD to ride on a Soyuz.
She can probably still afford it, even though I'd sure she's down from being the second richest woman on the Forbes list (behind the Queen of England, and I don't mean Elton John).
It's worth noting that we have an Iranian born US citizen riding on a 1970's technology rocket. Technology that was stolen by Soviet (remember the Evil Empire?) spys (remember McCarthy?) in the 1960's. And she's a muslim woman definitely not wearing a chadur-thingie.
America is a great country, and we have more boots than anywhere in the world, God bless us every one.
Reader bump and update: she's smoking hot too!
She can probably still afford it, even though I'd sure she's down from being the second richest woman on the Forbes list (behind the Queen of England, and I don't mean Elton John).
It's worth noting that we have an Iranian born US citizen riding on a 1970's technology rocket. Technology that was stolen by Soviet (remember the Evil Empire?) spys (remember McCarthy?) in the 1960's. And she's a muslim woman definitely not wearing a chadur-thingie.
America is a great country, and we have more boots than anywhere in the world, God bless us every one.
Reader bump and update: she's smoking hot too!
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