First woman space tourist returns to Earth
Afp, Arkalyk
The world's first female space tourist was greeted with fresh fruit and a bouquet of roses when she and the two crew members of the 13th International Space Station mission landed yesterday in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The capsule carrying Iranian-born American Anousheh Ansari, Pavel Vinogradov of Russia and US astronaut Jeffrey Williams touched down softly at 0114 GMT north of Arkalyk, shortly after sunrise.
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The world's first female space tourist Anousheh Ansari is helped out of the Russian "Soyuz TMA-8" space capsule after safe landing near Arkalyk, some 300km from Kazakh capital Astana yesterday |
