Anousheh Ansari
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1966 –
Who is Anousheh Ansari?
Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc.. 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.
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- Born
- Sep 12, 1966
Mashhad - Spouses
- Hamid Ansari
(1991 - )
- Hamid Ansari
- Religion
- Islam
- Ethnicity
- Persian people
- Nationality
- Iran
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, George Mason University
Electrical engineering
( - 1988) - Computer Science
- Master of Science, George Washington University
( - 1991)
- Bachelor of Science, George Mason University
- Employment
- Prodea Systems
- Lived in
- Mashhad
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on July 23, 2013
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