Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Anousheh Ansari, who blasted off this morning as the first person (correction: woman) ever to visit space as a tourist, is also this planet's first person to blog from space. (No, clearly she's not on dial-up or a cable modem.) How cool is that?!
Watch "spaceblog.xprize.org" for first-hand accounts of her trip.
She'll be back in 11 days, so expect to see her at the X Prize Cup event in Las Cruces, New Mexico, spanning October 21 through 22. There's going to be all sorts of cool stuff including, but not limited to:
The Lunar Lander Challenge (a NASA-supported prize effort to demonstrate the ability of private companies to develop next-generation lunar landers), the Vertical Rocket Challenge (another lunar-landing-technology-focused competition), and the Space Elevator Games (a test of over 20 teams to use light to power a vehicle along a tether, this year up about 50 meters, but eventually hundreds and thousands of miles).
For reasons I'm not going to go into, I'm following the [formerly Ansari] X Prize events closely this year. Stay tuned!
Posted by Melanie Phung
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Anousheh Ansari: The World's First Space Blogger
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Anousheh Ansari, who blasted off this morning as the first
person(correction: woman) ever to visit space as a tourist, is also this planet's first person to blog from space. (No, clearly she's not on dial-up or a cable modem.) How cool is that?!Watch "spaceblog.xprize.org" for first-hand accounts of her trip.
She'll be back in 11 days, so expect to see her at the X Prize Cup event in Las Cruces, New Mexico, spanning October 21 through 22. There's going to be all sorts of cool stuff including, but not limited to:
For reasons I'm not going to go into, I'm following the [formerly Ansari] X Prize events closely this year. Stay tuned!
Posted by Melanie Phung