Anousheh Ansari, 40, an Iranian-American telecoms entrepreneur, shows a thumbs up after donning her spacesuit at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan September 18, 2006. The Russian Soyuz spacecraft was set to blast off on Monday carrying a woman who will accomplish a trio of space firsts: the first female tourist, first female Muslim, and first Iranian in orbit. [Reuters]

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