blog from space

September 30, 2006

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Anousheh Ansari Space Blog Anousheh Ansari boasts many firsts: She's the first female space tourist, the first astronaut of Iranian descent—and, now, the first civilian to blog from beyond Earth's orbit. Her account of training for, blasting toward, and taking up temporary residence on the International Space Station is filled with rousing moments and some marvelous video (space flight will do that for a blog). However, we loved it as much for its intimacy. From Anousheh's posts, we learned that space smells like a "burned almond cookie." We read of what it's like to stare at our planet from so far away, how easy it is for ISS crew members to bruise their feet, and how they brush their teethposting to her site to say: Welcome home, space traveler!