Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Woman space flier looks far far ahead

ATTENTION EDITORS - CAPTION CLARIFICATION    U.S. entrepeneur Anousheh Ansari stands in front of a Soyuz space capsule training module during an examination on how to operate the Soyuz space capsule in the Star City space centre outside Moscow August 24 2006.  A medical commission found a Japan's space tourist Daisuke Enomoto unfit for the 10-day space journey and replaced him with Iranian-born U.S. businesswoman Ansari the spokesman for Russian space agency Roskosmos said.  REUTERS/Sergei Remezov (RUSSIA)The first woman to buy a ride to the international space station says she hopes her flight will expand the final frontier — an expansion that extends even to orbital toilets.


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