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The departure and return of Anousheh Ansari, the most recent paying passenger to go to outer space, seems to have re-stoked an old debate: are we correct in thinking of paying to go to space as ‘tourism’. (You would like to read the lengthy article...
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After an 11-day journey into space, the world’s first female space tourist Anousheh Ansari, 40, touched down Friday in the steppes of Kazakhstan with two male...
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Space tourist Anousheh Ansari completed her ten-day journey on 29th of September. Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and US astronaut Jeff Williams were her companions...
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After all the fuss Space Travel may not be all that grand! Apart from the closed space there are definite negatives as reflected by Anousheh Ansari :
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Numerous space travel enthusiasts, mainly women, collected themselves on Saturday at the Zaferanieh Observatory in Teheran just to catch a glimpse of the spacecraft...
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Anousheh Ansari an American of Iranian origin, who made her fortune in the telecommunications sector is set to blast off from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan...
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