Anousheh Ansari
Engineer
Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966, in Mashhad, Iran) is an engineer and the Iranian-American co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder andCEO 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 Iranian in space.Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, co-written with Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.
Born: September 12, 1966 (age 46), Mashhad, Iran
Space missions: Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-9
Space time: 10d 21h 5m
Spouse: Hamid Ansari (m. 1991)
Education: George Washington University (1991), George Mason University (1988)
Movies: Mojave Magic: A Turtle's Eye View of SpaceShipOne
ShareThis3
