AN AZERI IN ORBIT???

If all goes according to plan, Anushe Ansari will become the first Azeri astronaut on September 15th.

That's when the 39 year-old millionaire will be launched into space from the Baykanur space station in Kazakhstan.

Ms. Ansari is an American citizen who was born in Tehran, Iran to Azeri parents . The family left Iran after the 1978 Islamic Revolution.