The world's first female space tourist

The world's first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari, is helped out of the Russian Soyuz TMA-8 space capsule, not far from the Kazakh town of Arkalyk in September 2006. Despite the double-digit million-dollar price of a ticket, Russia's space tourism scheme has proven so popular that seats are sold out until 2009, the head of the Russian Space Agency Anatoly Perminov said.