More Ansari coverage

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 […]

Moby, space (tourist) cadet

The musician Moby has made it clear he’s had an interest in space, whether it’s his choice of album art and song titles or visits to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Now Moby appears ready to take that giant leap: he told MTV UK that […]

Ansari roundup

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 […]

Shuttleworth vs. Microsoft

So what do you do after you take a trip to space? How about take on the world’s largest software company? That’s the gist of a Reuters article about Mark Shuttleworth, the second tourist to visit the ISS, back in 2002. Shuttleworth is now backing a Linux distribution called Ubuntu that he hopes can win […]