Pakistani Woman Plans a Space Tour

Virgin Galactic founded by Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin airline is sponsoring Burt Rutan's Spaceship One which won the X prize in october 2004. The spacecraft for actual space travel is still on the drawing board. No prototype for commercial space travel has been built and tested. This story might be just a marketing ploy by Virgin Gallactic.

Here is a link to the Virgin Galactic website.


Reported by DAWN
Aug 18 2006
A Pakistani woman has been selected to join a commercial space flight in 2008 by Virgin Galactic for its first commercial space flight. Ms Namira, is an accomplished artist. Virgin Galactic selected Ms Namira for its exclusive Founders’ Club (first 100 people for the flight). As a founding member she will be among the lucky few to kickoff the new industry of space tourism.