http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/09/17/another-female-space-tourist/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/09/17/another-female-space-tourist/comment-page-1/#comment-107320 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:01:33 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/09/17/another-female-space-tourist/#comment-107320 […] Reuters, meanwhile, (or, rather, “Reuters Life!”, exclamation mark included), has a brief profile of Namira Salim, who plans to be the first Pakistani-born woman in space by flying on Virgin Galactic. Salim has already gotten some media coverage, so there’s not much new here. Few of the reports have explained how Salim, described in the Reuters article as “a poet and an artist” (and elsewhere as a musician, “astrologist”, and peace activist) could scrape up the $200,000 for a flight. That’s a lot of poems. […]

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