Thumbs up at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 18 September 2006. Maxim Marmur/AFP
Anousheh “flies” in a zero-gravity simulator in Star City, outside Moscow on 27 July 2006. Maxim Marmur/AFP
Training with would-be space tourist Daisuke Enomoto of Japan, who was later barred from participating due to health reasons. Maxim Marmur/AFP
Being helped out of the Russian “Soyuz TMA-8” space capsule, not far from the Kazakh town of Arkalyk, some 300km from the capital Astana on 29 September 2006. Sergei Remezov/AFP
As a child, she dreamed of walking among the stars. Now a successful technology entrepreneur, this Iranian-American made her dream come true with a trip to outer space.
THIS IS EXATCLY WHAT I MEAN
STOP ERASING MIDDLE EASTERNS LIKE THIS
SHE THE FIRST IRANIAN IN SPACE
STOP ERASING OUR ACHEIVEMENTS
People really need to stop making Middle Eastern achievements muslim ones. People never give Middle Easterns credit. Stop erasing our countries.
