Anousheh Ansari Blogs from Outer Space

Anousheh Ansari says in her space blog, "space smells like a burned almond cookie."  Anousheh Ansari is the space tourist and has helped everyday people understand life in space on her blog with what the Associated Press calls an uncommon insight into everyday life on the international space station through the eyes of an American businesswoman.

Anousheh Ansari Blogs from Outer Space

Her 10-day adventure ended early Friday. 

The 40-year-old Iranian-born Dallas suburbanite, who sometime signed her entries "Space Cadet," paid $20 million for her adventure. She was a last-minute substitute for a Japanese businessman who failed a medical test for space flight.

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On her return she posted:

I’m back on our beautiful Earth, thanks to all of your prayers and positive messages. I’m in Star City in quarantine for the next few days until I get back to DC to launch an exciting chapter in the X Prize Foundation concerning a prize for Genomics.

I was told to take it easy and limit my movements but I felt I had to at least tell you all about my ride down while the memory is still fresh in my mind…

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Some of her amusing entries included:

--"Well my friends, I must admit keeping good hygiene in space is not easy!"

-- She then described washing her hair by opening a water bag to make a huge bubble over her head, rubbing in dry shampoo and then being careful not to make sudden movements that would burst the bubble into small pieces of water floating everywhere.

--God invented Velcro for this very purpose. Shhhh! Don't tell anyone up here but I've lost a few little things already, like my lip-gloss."

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Her blog is here.

--Lynda Johnson writes from Hollywood