http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:10:13 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2006/10/01/125912.php#comment-132339 Tanay, Helen Sharman was not a tourist. I've no idea where that myth comes from, but it's totally untrue. She was selected, employed, trained and flew as a fully-qualified astronaut ("Cosmonaut Researcher" in the Russian parlance), the equivalent of any of the other scientist astronauts who have flown on Soyuz and Space Shuttle flights. 132339@desicritics.org Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:10:13 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/10/01/125912.php#comment-23704 Hmm.. that's a point. But I wonder what was the prompt for such a confusion over the first in space thing... 23704@desicritics.org Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:56:56 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/10/01/125912.php#comment-23637 Kishore : I guess sometimes a small change in the words that the media (news channel and newspaper) gives a whole lot of mis-information.. The first claim that Anousheh Ansari is the first female space tourist is not true.U.K.'s Helen Sharman was the first female space tourist when she flew to Mir in 1991.Check this out in Wikipedia here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Sharman Nadhu: Anousheh Ansari was on a flight to outer space and was not on a flight of fantasy :-),so I guess the 1st point you have raised is baseless and for the 2nd point the entire world is now going ga ga about her blog... 23637@desicritics.org Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:22:52 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/10/01/125912.php#comment-23521 did they fuck first or blog first in outerspace? 23521@desicritics.org Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:54:39 EDT