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Via YouTube, here’s a five-minute video showing the arrival of Anousheh Ansari and her Soyuz crewmates on the ISS: The quality is so-so, since it appears to be a video recording of the NASA TV webcast of the arrival ceremony, but a reasonable alternative if you were sleeping when the event took place or […] The Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft carrying Anousheh Ansari successfully docked with the ISS early Wednesday, and Ansari and her Soyuz crewmates boarded the station a few hours later. As an unbylined post on her space blog notes, she floated into the station weaning an X Prize cap (see this photo of the combined crews on the […] It’s been a quiet couple of days since Anousheh Ansari’s launch, since she’s had limited communications opportunities while the Soyuz spacecraft she’s flying in is in transit to the ISS. There are a couple items of note: One communications opportunity she did have was a rare three-way hookup between the ISS, Soyuz, and the shuttle […] Most of the media’s coverage about Anousheh Ansari’s upcoming flight to the ISS has billed her as the first female space tourist. Or is she? In a NASA Watch entry (perhaps more accurately described as a rant against the “hyping” of her flight), Keith Cowing says no: “The U.K.’s Helen Sharman was the first female […] Some various items about Anousheh Ansari and her upcoming flight: On his blog, MSNBC’s Alan Boyle touches upon the sensitive issue of religion and space, including the possibility that she will be able to observe the new moon from the ISS a day earlier than observers on the ground, triggering an early start to the […] An Interfax article today reports that Anousheh Ansari’s crewmates on the Soyuz launching late tonight, Michael Lopez-Alegria and Mikhail Tyurin, are impressed with her “professionalism”, as Tyurin put it, during her pre-flight training. “She has easily become part of the crew. One could think we’d been working for years together,” Tyurin added. An interesting comment […] Anousheh Ansari is still writing posts on her space blog, and plans to continue to do so during her stay on the ISS. MSNBC reports that such space blogging, as well as planned podcasts from the station, won’t come cheap: the data/phone link costs $250,000. The X Prize Foundation is picking up the tab for […] Ansari talks about training with the Expedition 14 backup crew, speaking warmly about Peggy Whitson and Yuri Malenchenko. The German news agency DPA, meanwhile, has a somewhat odd, even mildly sexist article about Ansari: “Lipstick to hand, womankind will make another giant cosmic leap Monday,” the article starts, then goes on to discuss the […] If you haven’t figured it out yet, Anousheh Ansari’s flight is approaching, so the media coverage is ramping up: First, though, something important: Tuesday is her 40th birthday, and she got birthday greetings, from, among others, Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov, who “wished her a happy birthday and success in carrying out the flight program and […] In a little less than a week Anousheh Ansari is scheduled to head to the ISS on a Soyuz taxi flight. A sampling of the coverage: The New York Times offers a basic overview of her interest in space, dating back to her childhood in Iran, and the work supporting the X Prize and the […] |
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