First woman space tourist docks at space station

The Iranian-born US entrepreneur is on an eight-day visit to the orbiter at an estimated cost of $ 20 million.

A Soyuz space capsule carrying the first woman space tourist Anousheh Ansari docked on Wednesday at the International Space Station (ISS), ground controllers said in Moscow.

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The spacecraft, which was launched from Kazakhstan on Monday, brings the Iranian-born US entrepreneur on an eight-day visit to the orbiter at an estimated cost of $ 20 million.

The next ISS crew, cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and US astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, who will spend six months on the station, accompanied her.