Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری, born September 12, 1966 in Mashhad, Iran) is an engineer and the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc and a spaceflight participant with the Russian space program. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X PRIZE. On September 18, 2006, a few days after...
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Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری, born September 12, 1966 in Mashhad, Iran) is an engineer and the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc and a spaceflight participant with the Russian space program. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X PRIZE. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Muslim female to go into space. Ansari was the fourth self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station.
Anousheh Ansari born in Mashhad, Iran, Anousheh and her parents moved to Tehran shortly afterward. Anousheh witnessed the Iranian Revolution in 1979. She emigrated to the United States in 1984 as a teenager.. Apart from her native Persian, she is fluent in English and French, and acquired a working knowledge of Russian for her spaceflight experience....
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