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Next space tourist seeks understanding in stars
As launch nears, Dallas exec wishes for peace
between United States and her native Iran
By IRENE KLOTZ
Reuters News Service
The spacesuit she will wear when she blasts off for a 10-day orbital
vacation to the international space station has been stripped of the flag
of Iran, her native country.
At the insistence of the Russian and U.S. governments, she has also promised
there will be no political messages during her trip, although Ansari is
painfully aware of the deep divide between the governments of her adopted
U.S. home and the land she left at age 16.
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