Iranians Find Space Tourist Fascinating - New York Times: "TEHRAN, Oct. 28 — Iranians hailed the recent voyage of the first woman to go into space as a private explorer, an Iranian-American, with two jokes that circulated widely on cellphones.
Mrs. Ansari was reunited with her husband, Hamid, in Kazakhstan late last month after her return to Earth.
Muslim clerics, went the first, were refusing to look into the sky for the moon so that they could announce the beginning of Ramadan because they feared seeing the amateur astronaut without her veil."
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