Muslims in Spaaaacccceeee!

The first female Muslm space tourist has returned to earth, landing in Kazakhstan with snails, worms and barley, otherwise known as a Kazakhi Ceasar salad. She was immediately greeted by Borat who asked her politely, "yes, and now we have a the sex?"

Her journey started as little girl fleeing Iran for the greener (as in money green) pastures of American dreamdom, knowing little more than some verses of "My Favorite Things," from the film "The Sound of Music." Those favorite things being snails, worms and barley.

Anousheh Ansari is just the latest in a long line of double X's to be hurtled skyward. The great Valentina Tereshkova was the first in 1963, remembered fondly now on a Soviet postage stamp.



And least we forget the greatest space lady of them all. Yes, you guessed it, Miss Piggy, of Pigs in Spaaaaccceee fame, who rode the silvery rocket to represent her species in silvery spandex. You go Kermie!









But not all space suits have a silver lining. Anousheh Ansari may want to think about staying in the stratosphere. Her twenty million dollar ticket was paid for by the money she made selling off shares of her high flying telco company, Sonus Networks Inc. Sonus has since plunged to earth, and, according to CNN, Ansari is being sued for insider trading. Better find a permanent room on that space station Anousheh, or you'll be singing "So Long, Farewell" on your way to Martha Stewart's old digs.