Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari,set to be the first female commercial space tourist, is scheduled to lift off on the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 flight Monday, September 18th. She plans to blog and podcast from space at a site hosted by Los Angeles-based X PRIZE Foundation. “I‚Äôm hours away from my flight,” notes Ansari at her Space […]

NASA is making space shuttle launch footage available as a video podcast for the first time. Complete video of the STS-115 shuttle launch (MP4) is included in a recent NASAcast. NASA plans to offer video podcasts for future launches. Other recent episode include footage of Atlantis performing a flip for the cameras before docking with […]

Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and Chairman of Prodea Systems, is set to be the first female commercial space tourist, taking off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launching Monday, September 18th. She plans to blog and podcast from space at a site hosted by Los Angeles-based X PRIZE Foundation. “Over the next few days before […]