In sci.space.policy, on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:56:52 GMT,
Christopher P. Winter sez:

` On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:31:12 GMT, "Jim Oberg"
` wrote:

` Ansari was the backup 'space tourist', and the prime guy (Enomoto)
` was just medically disqualified. She can speak to people in Iran
` with a 'voice from heaven' that the mullahs can't block -- what can she say?
`
` http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/...dc_1&printer=1
`

` This is an unfortunate translation:

` http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...i_tourist.html

` "Zvezda has manufactured seats, suits and other personal equipment
` for every single of Soviet cosmonauts, including Yuri Gagarin and
` Valentina Tereshkova who was the first woman to fly to space. Ansari
` as any other female member of a Soyuz-TMA crew requires a different
` bowl for disembowelment, Pozdnyakov. "This equipment is fit for
` answering both kinds of calls of the nature," Pozdnyakov told
` Space.com in an interview on Thursday."

Clever foreigners, learned in exotic martial arts, are capable
of disembowelling the unwary with a chamber pot.


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