Female Space Tourist Blasts Off

From what I’ve been reading she’s a Star Trek fan! I’m green with envy:

Female space tourist blasts off

“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.”