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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.
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 ...
The prize was ultimately funded through an insurance policy underwritten by the Anousheh and Hamid Ansari Family and renamed the Ansari XPRIZE in their honor. The $10 million competition attracted 26 teams from seven countries as teams and was won on October 4, 2004, by Mojave Aerospace Ventures , a team run by the aviation designer Burt Rutan ...
Firouz Michael Naderi was born on March 15, 1946, in Shiraz, but his birth was recorded on March 25, 1946. [4] [5] [6] His elementary education was in Shiraz, Iran.[7] [8] He attended high school in Tehran, Iran at highly valued Andisheh High School and left Iran in 1964 for the United States to pursue his college education.
Ali M. Ansari (born 1967), Iranian-British history professor; Ali Al Ansari, Emirati paralympic athlete; Allama Mustafa Hussain Ansari, (1945–2006), Kashmiri writer and public speaker; Amir Ansari (born 1970), American businessman and entrepreneur of Iranian descent; Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), Iranian-American engineer, businesswoman and ...
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.
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Amir Ansari (Persian: امیر انصاری) is an American chief technology officer and co-founder of Prodea Systems.. Along with his sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari, he made a multimillion-dollar contribution to the Ansari X Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight.