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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.
The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government ... Anousheh Ansari and Amir ...
Anousheh Ansari, the world's first female space tourist, first Iranian in space, co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc., co-founder and former CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI) Cyrus A. Ansary , businessman, President of Investment Services International Co., founder and current chairman of Fort Knox National Company, and ...
Anousheh Ansari: Soyuz TMA-9 (September 18, 2006) First female space tourist; first Muslim woman in space; first Iranian in space.
Astronaut Mike Melvill after his award-winning September 29, 2004 spaceflight. The Ansari XPRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight was the first prize from the foundation. It successfully challenged teams to build private spaceships capable of carrying three people and fly two times within two weeks to open the space frontier.
Frei follows Iranian-American multimillionaire Anousheh Ansari as she undergoes ersatz cosmonaut training en route to becoming the world's first female space tourist. She herself is armed with a camera, and her footage on board the International Space Station is some of the most intimate, breathtaking imagery we will ever see from outer space.
Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize Niloufar Bayani (born 1986), wildlife conservation biology researcher and activist; jailed in Iran
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight is a 2016 non-fiction book by journalist Julian Guthrie about the origins of the X Prize Foundation and Peter Diamandis, the first X Prize, the Ansari X Prize and Anousheh Ansari, the entrants into that suborbital spaceflight competition, and the winning team, Mojave Aerospace Ventures of Vulcan ...