Mad props to Anousheh Ansari from nearby (to me at least) Plano, Texas, for her reportedly $20 million vacation trip to the International Space Station. The 40-year-old Texas entrepreneur may be checking things out where you are as we speak.
Ansari, whose family created the Ansari X-Prize for private space flight, blasted off in a Soyuz spacecraft last night from Kazakhstan. Just going to Kazakhstan would be an adventure for me. Why hell, just pronouncing Kazakhstan correctly would for me be a major accomplishment.
Ansari won’t stay at the Space Station but will instead zip back to Earth with the astro-cosmo-nauts who are returning from their tour of duty in the ISS.
EFD wishes Ansari a safe trip and just a tip: Don’t drink the water. I don’t know that the water is bad up there, but that’s what you tell someone when they go on an exotic trip. Unfortunately, there may be no beer up there in the ISS to drink instead of water, which is what you drink when you shouldn’t drink the water. Maybe she should just ask for a nice glass of Tang.