First Female German Space Tourist            Space tourist Sonja Rohde, 31, is ready to be the first female German national to fly a commercial spaceflight aboard the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Enterprise in 2009. Rohde, daughter of the head of a real estate company in the German city of Hagen, remains determined to make the nearly 80-mile flight into near Earth space. "It would be naïve to believe that something like 100% safety exists," she told the German edition of Technology Review in an interview, published in the November edition of the magazine. “Burt Rutan”, she said, "may be a flamboyant and lively inventor but he nonetheless strikes me as a reliable and respectable person." White Knight 2 with Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise