Blast off!!!!
Hell yea for Iranian American's!!!!!!!!!!! This is the coolest thing I have heard in a while and definatly makes me proud to be an Iranian American. It also shows that there is hope for the future. Check this out in case you haven't heard!
A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off Monday in Kazakhstan on a flight to the international space station.
Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur, was accompanied by a U.S.-Russian crew on the Soyuz TMA-9 capsule.
Ansari is aiming to realize a life-long dream.
As the fourth space tourist, the Iranian-born American also becomes the first woman to pay her way into space, and the first person of Iranian descent to get there.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/18/space.female.tourist/index.html
So, I definatly salute you Anousheh Ansari! You kick ass and when you get back to Earth...I'm writing you a letter!
Stay frosty everyone and remember...space is the place of the future!
A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off Monday in Kazakhstan on a flight to the international space station.
Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur, was accompanied by a U.S.-Russian crew on the Soyuz TMA-9 capsule.
Ansari is aiming to realize a life-long dream.
As the fourth space tourist, the Iranian-born American also becomes the first woman to pay her way into space, and the first person of Iranian descent to get there.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/18/space.female.tourist/index.html
So, I definatly salute you Anousheh Ansari! You kick ass and when you get back to Earth...I'm writing you a letter!
Stay frosty everyone and remember...space is the place of the future!