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Anousheh ansari biography
Anousheh Ansari
Iranian-American engineer and space tourist (born 1966)
Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan;[2] born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur.
She is the co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems, and her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and chief executive officer of Telecom Technologies, Inc. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian person to be in outer space.[3] 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 American engineer Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.[4]
She is also the chief executive officer of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the Ansari family is the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize.[5]
Early life
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