THE FIRST FEMME OF SPACE TOURIST. (30/09/2006) (Photos: JSC/NASA/Bill Ingalls) Here is her short biography:...

THE FIRST FEMME OF SPACE TOURIST. (30/09/2006) (Photos: JSC/NASA/Bill Ingalls) Here is her short biography: she is first a businesswoman, she was co-founder of Telecom Tecnologies Inc. She's very involved in telecoms and in the space where she makes a fortune. She was born in 1967 and migrated to the USA in 1984, she is an engineer in electronics and computer science, she speaks very well in French. She's married, so you astronauts have no hope!. She paid $20 million to take part in this trip. With the STS115 finally arrived on 21 September 2006, the public's attention could finally turn to shipment 14 to the ISS, which had already started BA¿Konour for a few days (launched on 18 September 2006 and docking on the 20). Indeed, this expedition as the Americans call the missions to the ISS presents two new ones: the Japanese tourist Daisuke Enomota did not get the OK for his departure from Soyuz, he did not pass all medical tests (let's not forget that the flight in Soyuz is, say, more “as well as a flight from the shuttle, both the But even tourists have backups and we are delighted to see the first woman tourist in space, a beautiful woman of Iranian origin Anousheh Ansari, 38 years old. The complete picture (when clicked) also shows the other two partners of Anoushe: Mikhail Tyurin Russian officer accustomed to long-term flights and Amur Commander Michael E. Lopez-Alegria.