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	THE IRANIAN: Space entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari, Nima Kasraie
		Ansari is the perfect example, even in the words of the Arab 7th century prophet Mohammed, of "Persians that aspire to reach the heavens in search of knowledge and wisdom." Indeed, Mrs.
		Ansari's story is a stark reminder to us all of the impeccable talents our women and daughters in Iran have, and that if provided with the freedom and the necessary tools for growth, what celestial heights they can obtain.
		Ansari's story should prove an example that in the new millenium, the value of women is measured by the height of their outstanding achievements, and not by the length of their Hijab, and size or tightness of their manteaus.
	www.iranian.com /Kasraie/2004/October/Ansari/index.html (467 words)

	Anousheh Ansari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری) is a co-founder and Chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI).
		Born in 1966 in Tehran, Iran (Persia), Ansari witnessed the Iranian revolution in 1979.
		Ansari, along with her husband Hamid and brother-in-law Amir, founded TTI in 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anousheh_Ansari (391 words)

	Anousheh Ansari Encyclopedia Article @ JobsInArt.com (Jobs in Art) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Along with her brother-in-law Amir Ansari, she made a multi-million contribution to the X-Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight.
		Ansari was listed in Fortune magazine's "40 under 40" list in 2001 and honoured by Working Woman magazine as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award.
		It was reported on March 16, 2006 that Anousheh Ansari was in training for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station, a report which was later denied by Space Adventures.
	www.jobsinart.com /encyclopedia/Anousheh_Ansari (433 words)

	Celebrating Anniversary of Historic Space Flight, Ansari Family's Donation Gives Huge Boost to Future Space Travel and ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ANSARI X PRIZE is modeled after the $25,000 Orteig Prize won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 for his historic flight from New York to Paris.
		Anousheh Ansari is a co-founder of venture capital firm Prodea, Inc. Mrs.
		Ansari co-founded telecom technologies, inc. (tti), a supplier of softswitch-based solutions for network and service providers in 1993, which was acquired by Sonus Networks in 2000.
	www.californiaspaceauthority.org /html/press-releasesandletters/pr040505.html (824 words)

	Anousheh Ansari (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anousheh Ansari (persisch: انوشه انصاری [ænuːˈʃɛ ænsɔːˈriː]; * 1967 in Teheran, Iran) ist eine US-amerikanische Unternehmerin und Multimillionärin.
		Während Ansari an der GWU studierte, arbeitete sie für den US-Telekomkonzern MCI in Washington (D.C.).
		Anousheh, Hamid und dessen Bruder Amir zogen nach Texas und ließen sich nördlich von Dallas in Plano nieder.
	www.tocatch.info /de/Anousheh_Ansari.htm (459 words)

	Anousheh Ansari - Living on The Huffington Post
		Anousheh Ansari brings more than two decades as a successful serial entrepreneur to Prodea Systems, where she serves as Chairman.
		Anousheh is capturing headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer.
		Anousheh is a member of the X-Prize Foundation's Vision Circle, as well as its Board of Trustees.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /anousheh-ansari (653 words)

	Anousheh Ansari And The Crew Return To Earth (Iran Press Service)
		Ansari, wrapped in a fur-lined blanket to guard against the early morning chill, smiled as she sat in a chair surrounded by high grass after exiting the Soyuz.
		Ansari, 40, was the fourth person, and the first woman, to pay a reported US$20 million (euro16 million) for a trip to the international space station.
		Ansari's two companions on the trip to the station, Russian Mikhail Tyurin and American Michael Lopez-Alegria, were staying aboard the station for a six-month stint along with German Thomas Reiter of the European Space Agency, who arrived aboard the U.S. space shuttle in July.
	www.iran-press-service.com /ips/articles-2006/september-2006/ansari-30906.shtml (1314 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Anousheh Ansari: A passion for space travel
		Anousheh Ansari spent her childhood in Iran dreaming of venturing into space.
		Ansari is the first space tourist to have passionately pursued the development of private space flight, using her grounding in business and science to do this.
		At 35, Ms Ansari was one of only two women to be featured in a Fortune magazine list of America's 40 most successful business figures under the age of 40.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/5345872.stm (685 words)

	Space Adventures — About Anousheh Ansari (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anousheh Ansari brings more than two decades as a successful serial entrepreneur to Prodea Systems, where she serves as Chairman.
		An active proponent of world-changing technologies, Anousheh has dreamed of space exploration since childhood, and her family provided the title sponsorship for the Ansari X Prize.
		Anousheh is a member of the X Prize Foundation’s Vision Circle, as well as its Board of Trustees.
	www.spaceadventures.com /anousheh-ansari/about (279 words)

	Ansari X Prize Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She is an important donor to the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private space travel.
		Ansari's family invented the X Prize in 1996...
		The Ansari X Prize (formerly the X Prize) was a US$10,000,000 prize, offered by the X PRIZE Foundation, for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/Ansari_X_Prize (1103 words)

	Ansari X Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the X Prize Foundation itself did not ban these companies from applying, so long as they could prove their efforts on this project would be free of government funding.
		Representatives of the Ansari X Prize Foundation symbolically presented the ten million dollar prize to Burt Rutan and Paul Allen of Mojave Aerospace Ventures on November 6, 2004.
		Created in May 1996 and initially called just "X Prize", it was renamed "Ansari X Prize" on May 6, 2004 following a multimillion dollar donation from Iranian-born entrepreneurs Anousheh Ansari and Amir Ansari.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ANSARI_X_PRIZE (1280 words)

	Iranian-Born American Anousheh Ansari Is World's First Muslim Woman in Space
		Ansari, who is on an eight-day visit to the International Space Station (ISS), became the first Muslim woman and first Iranian in space as well as the first private female space tourist.
		Ansari, a telecommunications entrepreneur, is scheduled to return to Earth September 28 with two outgoing Expedition 13 crew members -- commander Pavel Vinogradov, a Russian cosmonaut, and science officer Jeff Williams, a NASA astronaut.
		Ansari is flying under contract with Roskosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, according to a NASA press release.
	www.payvand.com /news/06/sep/1263.html (700 words)

	First Female Space Tourist Ready To Go, Anousheh Ansari Will Be On Sept. 14 Russian Mission To Space Station - CBS News
		Ansari has already encouraged space tourism by helping to endow the so-called "X Prize," which was a $10 million award aimed at encouraging the development of a privately built, reusable spaceship.
		Ansari is now part of a large team that is working on the development of a new kind of spacecraft that would be used to open up space tourism to greater numbers of people by making it more affordable.
		Anousheh Ansari has been training for months, but found out only this week that she would be on the next mission.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/08/24/tech/main1932929.shtml (810 words)

	X PRIZE Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original Ansari X Prize was presented on November 6, 2004.
		Based on the success of the Ansari X PRIZE, the Foundation is now widely regarded as the premiere prize management institute in the world.
		The Ansari X PRIZE was designed to be a catalyst for the private space tourism industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/X_PRIZE_Foundation (290 words)

	X PRIZE Foundation \| Board of Trustees
		Anousheh is capturing headlines around the world as the first female space “adventurer.” On Sept. 14, she will blast off for an 8 day expedition aboard the International Space Station.
		Anousheh will be the fourth private explorer to visit space, and the first astronaut of Iranian descent.
		Her family provided the title sponsorship for the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million cash award for the first non-governmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
	www.xprizefoundation.com /about_us/boardAnsari.asp (535 words)

	Anousheh Ansari - انوشه انصاري
		Ansari's contract bars her from revealing the trip's cost, but she noted previous space tourists have paid some $20 million.
		Ansari will spend 10 days before returning to Earth with its current crew, Pavel Vinogradov and Jeff Williams, who have been aboard since April 1.
		Ansari, who with her husband co-founded the Texas-based company Telecom Technologies, is following in the path of space tourists Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth and Greg Olsen, who also traveled to the international space station aboard Russian capsules.
	www.spacescience.ir /Anousheh_Ansari.htm (2214 words)

	Anousheh Ansari: Two views - Tech_Space - USATODAY.com
		Ansari's family in a different, stronger light: Her parents left Iran in 1984 specifically to allow her to pursue her enthusiasm for science, one of the many things that radical interpretations of Islam believe females shouldn't do.
		Ansari rightfully detests, they detail her multiple scientific degrees and note that she and her husband eventually set up a successful telecom-related business, cashing out as the industry deregulated and putting a portion of her fortune into the pursuit of private space travel.
		Ansari is certainly a hero for all women around the world, not just Muslims, however, it should be noted that many of the geniuses that run the NASA programs are of of Iranian and other ME backgrounds, including the two heads of NASA's JPL (Jet Propulsion Labratory) and many other scientists.
	blogs.usatoday.com /techspace/2006/09/anousheh_ansari.html (897 words)

	SPACE.com --
		Ansari will be the fourth person to pay a purported 20 million dollars for the chance to spend 8 days aboard the ISS in a deal brokered between the space tourism firm Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency.
		Anousheh Ansari said Wednesday she remembers wondering as a child if somebody else like her could be out there among the stars.
		Anousheh Ansari, failure to reach space is not an option.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/ansari_spacetourist_archive.html (1321 words)

	Woman wins space passenger spot - Human Spaceflight - MSNBC.com
		Ansari, 38, and her brother-in-law, Amir Ansari, were the principal backers of the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, which was won in October 2004 by the SpaceShipOne rocket plane.
		Anousheh and Amir Ansari —along with Anousheh's husband, Hamid — are partners in Prodea, a Texas-based investment firm that is backing an effort to build suborbital spaceships for tourist flights.
		Anousheh Ansari would be the world's fourth space passenger to pay for a trip to the space station, and the first woman to do so.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14452905 (632 words)

	X PRIZE Foundation: Anousheh Ansari: First Female Private Space Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Listen to Be the Change, the song inspired by Anousheh Ansari's trip and dedicated to her by Grammy Award-winning group, Deep Dish.
		Anousheh Ansari has dreamed of going into space since she was a little girl.
		The Anousheh Ansari Space Blog hosted by the X PRIZE Foundation is your chance to learn first-hand what it really feels like to be in space.
	xprize.org /xprizes/anousheh_ansari.html (461 words)

	DUBAI PHOTO MEDIA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anousheh Ansari has been selected to join the primary crew of the Soyuz TMA-9, which will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
		Anousheh Ansari is the fourth private explorer to visit the ISS, and the first astronaut of Iranian descent.
		Anousheh Ansari along with Amir Ansari, her brother-in-law, and co-founder and chief technical officer of Prodea Systems, provided the title sponsorship for the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million cash prize awarded to Burt Rutan in 2004, for the first non- governmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
	www.dpm.ae /doc_cont.asp?id=96187 (764 words)

	Michael Williams -- Master of None: The Ansari Behind the X-Prize (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thanks to Asparagirl for the pointer to this background page on Anousheh Ansari, the woman who's primarily responsible for the establishment and funding of the Ansari X-Prize.
		But most of the actual prize money, and the prize's name, comes from tech entrepreneur and self-made millionaire Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American woman who immigrated to the US at 16--because the hardline Islamicists back in Tehran would not have let her study such unsuitable and unfeminine subjects as math and science.
		Iran's loss is the world's gain; Ansari (and her brother-in-law, who also donated some of the prize money) is helping make commercial space travel a real possibility in our lifetimes--heck, a real possibility in just the next 15 years.
	www.mwilliams.info /archives/004738.php (247 words)

	Iran News - Anousheh Ansari to be 1st female 'space tourist' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In fact, Ansari, who, when not offering vast cash prizes for trailblazing aerospace pioneers, is the chief executive of Telecom Technologies, may get into space even sooner than that.
		Forbes reports she is the understudy for Japanese businessman Daisuke Enomoto, should he be unable to make his planned nine-day flight to the station in the fall of 2006.
		Ansari is currently undergoing training for her trip at Russia's Gagarin cosmonaut training center, after being declared fit for spaceflight in February.
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=43542&...+Affairs (284 words)

	CNN.com - Meet the first female space tourist - Aug 25, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anousheh Ansari will join the crew of the Soyuz TMA-9, which will launch from Kazakhstan, according to the home-technology company, Prodea Systems Inc., run by Ansari's family.
		Ansari is expected to return to Earth 10 days later with Pavel Vinogradov and Jeff Williams, who have been on the space station since April 1.
		According to the company, Ansari immigrated to the United States from Iran as a teenager and earned degrees in computer and electrical engineering.
	www.cnn.com /2006/TECH/space/08/25/female.space.tourist.ap/index.html (326 words)

	Anousheh Ansari, First Female Space Tourist Traveller, Iranian Woman, Iran, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in Iran and now a U.S. citizen and successful entrepreneur, Ansari founded the tele communications firm Telecom Technologies with her husband Hamid and brother-in-law Amir.
		The family also provided seed money for the Ansari X Prize spaceflight competition – later renamed for the entrepreneurs – which offered $10 million to the first team to build and launch a privately-funded, piloted spacecraft to suborbital space and back twice in two weeks.
		More recently, the Ansaris have launched their Texas-based Prodea firm and agreed to partner with Space Adventures to develop the tourism firm’s Explorer spacecraft for suborbital flights from Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
	www.mazh.com /Text/20041022-Ansari/20041022-AnoushehAnsari.htm (209 words)

	Woman space flier looks far, far ahead - Human Spaceflight - MSNBC.com
		Anousheh Ansari, who was born in Iran but made her mark as an telecommunications entrepreneur in the United States, is due to lift off in the company of two professional astronauts next Monday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, for a 10-day trip to orbit and back.
		Ansari, who turned 40 on Tuesday and has described herself as a "liberal Muslim," says she has wanted to travel to outer space ever since she was a girl growing up in Iran.
		Ansari: The most important part of my role as an ambassador is to educate everyone about space and the importance of space, and space exploration and space sciences.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14787856 (926 words)

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