Ansari, Anousheh, 1966-
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- Her My dream of stars, 2010:ECIP t.p. (Anousheh Ansari) ECIP data view, etc. (Ansari, Anousheh; b. in Mashhad, Iran; immigrated to America; became fourth-ever and first Muslim woman commercial spaceflight participant; founder of firm Telecom Technologies and of Ansari Foundation, a non-profit social entrepreneurship organization; b. 1966)
- Regreso a la tierra, 2019:t.p. (Anousheh Ansari) p. 107 (born Anousheh Raissyan; on marrying she acquired the surname Ansari; cofounded Telecom Technologies in 1993; first woman space tourist, although in her book she calls herself a "space explorer" because of her scientific preparation and training period)
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Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur. Ansari is the CEO of XPRIZE Foundation. Ansari and her family sponsored XPRIZE’s first venture in 1994: the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE. Prior to XPRIZE, Ansari was the CEO and Chairwoman of Prodea Systems, an Internet of Things (IoT) technology firm she co-founded in 2006. While under her leadership, the company earned recognition as one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest-growing companies and Deloitte & Touche’s Fast 500 technology companies. 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.
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