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#1 2007-03-07 11:01:00
- Palomar
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Re: Tereshkova, 70, wants to go to Mars
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/07/f...reut/index.html
She looks good for her age. 
That's right -- she is the first woman in space (not you, Ansari).
Tereshkova says she'd fly to Mars on a one-way trip; reiterates reaching Mars was the ultimate cosmonaut dream.
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#2 2007-03-07 20:24:13
- SpaceNut
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Re: Tereshkova, 70, wants to go to Mars
It would seem that we have no lack of volunteers for a one way mission to mars and here is another to add to the list.
The world's first female astronaut Valentina Tereshkova still has space dreams of flying to Mars
June 1963, 25-year-old now marking her 70th birthday spent 71 hours in orbit on board a Soviet Vostok spacecraft, earning a niche in the history books and scoring propaganda points for the Soviet Union in its Cold War space rivalry with the United States.
This was a marking moment in history in a male dominated profession...
Now if they can only get by the tourist needing to be rich thing more of us might be volunteering as well...
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#3 2007-03-09 14:02:18
- Mars_B4_Moon
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Re: Tereshkova, 70, wants to go to Mars
wow, she still has it and has great courage and conviction - but I doubt she will ever be setting foot on Mars
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