The first female space tourist will head to the International Space Station Sept. 14. Anouseh Ansari, the name sponsor for the Ansari X Prize competition, will join NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin on the launch of a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…
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