First woman space tourist on her way to the ISS   KAZAKHSTAN, Baikonur : The Russian Soyuz TMA-9 rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist, Anoushen Ansari, US Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin takes off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, early 18 September 2006. The Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft carrying the world's first female tourist and the two professional astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully entered orbit, officials at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan said. Release date: 24 November 2006