Germany's Thomas Reiter, who began a six-month stint on the space station in July, said Anousheh Ansari, a 40-year-old Iranian-American telecoms entrepreneur, was making the most of her 11 days in orbit.
"The mood up here is very good," Reiter told a news conference by live video link-up at the European Space Agency's operations centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt. "Time is going quickly ... and the food isn't bad."
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