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Anousheh Ansari boasts many firsts: She’s the first female space tourist, the first astronaut of Iranian descent—and, now, the first civilian to blog from beyond Earth’s orbit. Her account of training for, blasting toward, and taking up temporary residence on the International Space Station is filled with rousing moments and some marvelous video (space flight will do that for a blog). However, we loved it as much for its intimacy. From Anousheh’s posts, we learned that space smells like a “burned almond cookie.” We read of what it’s like to stare at our planet from so far away, how easy it is for ISS crew members to bruise their feet, and how they brush their teeth in zero gravity. Anousheh has since returned to terra firma, and we join with the hundreds posting to her site to say: Welcome home, space traveler! (in Astronomy and Space)

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And we hope she’ll never forget what made her flight possible: Western freedom and democracy.

See her video at XPrize.org

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