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    Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur. She is...
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  • Anousheh (Persian: انوشه) is an Iranian given name for males and females. People named Anousheh include: Anousheh Ansari, Iranian-American engineer Anousheh...
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  • and she was requested to train other women. On September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari became the first female private space explorer at 40 years of age....
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    renamed the "Ansari X Prize" on May 6, 2004, following a multimillion-dollar donation from entrepreneurs Anousheh Ansari and Amir Ansari. The prize was...
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    In 1993, Amir Ansari co-founded Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI) alongside his brother Hamid Ansari and sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari. He served as the...
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  • New Jersey and New York. Anousheh Ansari lifted off on Soyuz TMA-9 on 18 September 2006, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ansari became the fourth (and first...
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    conjunction with Roscosmos and RSC Energia. Iranian-American businesswoman Anousheh Ansari became the first ever female space tourist in September 2006. The publicized...
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    two prominent Iranian Americans, Anousheh Ansari and Firouz Naderi would represent him in the ceremony. Anousheh Ansari is famed for being the first female...
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  • on July 28, 2010. Retrieved January 31, 2012. "X Prize-Our People, Anousheh Ansari, CEO". Retrieved March 11, 2019. Boyle, Alan (November 6, 2004). "Spaceship...
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  • rally would be held instead. On 24 February, Farhadi announced that Anousheh Ansari, known as the first female space tourist, and Firouz Naderi, a former...
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    Ordinary. In 2006, Anousheh Ansari, co-founder of the Ansari X Prize, became the first female space tourist and first Iranian astronaut. Ansari is also the co-founder...
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  • to promote the welfare of women in Persian-speaking lands. In 2006 Anousheh Ansari, a woman whose family fled the country after the 1979 revolution, became...
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  • Hussain Ansari, (1945–2006), Kashmiri writer and public speaker Amir Ansari (born 1970), American businessman and entrepreneur of Iranian descent Anousheh Ansari...
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    female "first flyers" (Helen Sharman for the United Kingdom in 1991, Anousheh Ansari for Iran in 2006, Yi So-yeon for South Korea in 2008, Sara Sabry for...
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    Dennis Tito, the first person to pay for his own passage to the ISS. Anousheh Ansari became the first self-funded woman to fly to the ISS as well as the...
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    Everywhere." In 2010, he co-authored My Dream of Stars (2010) with Anousheh Ansari, a multi-millionaire Iranian-American who became the world's first...
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    and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI), sponsor of the Ansari X Prize Anousheh Ansari, born 12 September 1966; the Iranian-American co-founder and...
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    determined to be unfit for the flight for medical reasons, and replaced by Anousheh Ansari, his back-up crew member. Docked to ISS: 20 September 2006, 05:21 UTC...
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    950 million  Future Shop 10 Omid Kordestani  Iran USA 900 million  Google 11 Anousheh Ansari  Iran USA 750 million  Sonus Networks 12 Isaac Larian  Iran USA 723 million ...
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    Dennis Tito, the first person to pay for his own passage to the ISS. Anousheh Ansari became the first self-funded woman to fly to the ISS as well as the...
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    Ansari X-Prize winner Burt Rutan, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and private astronaut and X-Prize sponsor Anousheh Ansari...
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  • "Grammy Award-winning Production/DJ Act Deep Dish Score Music for Anousheh Ansari's Historic Space Flight". September 21, 2006. Retrieved March 15, 2017...
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  • has received NASA's highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal; Anousheh Ansari, the world’s first female private space explorer and serial entrepreneur...
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  • of History at Purdue University Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the X Prize Foundation Ron Baron, billionaire founder of Baron...
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  • distance swimmer Ali al-Tamimi, convicted terrorist Amir Ansari, venture capitalist Anousheh Ansari, space tourist Sandy Antunes, astronomer Randall C. Berg...
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  • Organization, and executive editor of the journal Sufism: An Inquiry Anousheh Ansari, first Iranian in space and the first female space tourist; Nima Arkani-Hamed...
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    25 April – 5 May 2002 Gregory Olsen (American): 1–11 October 2005 Anousheh Ansari (Iranian / American): 18–29 September 2006 Charles Simonyi (Hungarian...
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    Quine, Tony (April 2007). "Addicted to space: An appreciation of Anousheh Ansari, Part II". Spaceflight. 49 (4): 144. ISSN 0038-6340. "Why Do Astronauts...
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    Yoshua Bengio Anousheh Ansari Yves Daccord Vladimir Kramnik Jim Hagemann Snabe Klaus-Robert Müller Jean-Philippe Courtois Amir Ansari Francis Gury Petteri...
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  • 2010 Name Profession Country of Birth Paul Anka Singer Canada Anousheh Ansari Engineer, entrepreneur Iran Joseph Aoun President, Northeastern University...
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