http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/09/17/another-female-space-tourist/ Space tourism, public space travel, and the beginnings of a new industry Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:27:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/09/17/another-female-space-tourist/#comment-107320 Personal Spaceflight » Subcontinental space tourists 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. [...] [...] 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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