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Anousheh Ansari
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Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur
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Anousheh Ansari is an author and affiliate of the XPRIZE Foundation and X-Prize. Born on September 12, 1966, she has spent 15665 units of time in space. Her published works include the book *My dream of stars*.
Ansari maintains an official website and a social media presence with 45782 followers. She has been referenced by 217 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1966
- Works
- 1
Top works
- My dream of stars
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,471x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,248x
- World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour
· 2020 · cited 9,613x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,016x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Ansari
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Place of birth
- Mashhad
- Educated at
- George Washington University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- irreligion
- Official website
- www.anoushehansari.com
- Image
- Anousheh Ansari at AI for Good 2018.jpg
- Residence
- Plano
- Significant event
- spaceflight
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- Commons category
- Anousheh Ansari
- affiliation string
- X-Prize
- date of birth
- 1966-09-12
- P450
- Soyuz TMA-8
- Commons gallery
- Anousheh Ansari
- name in native language
- Anousheh Ansari
- time in space
- 15665
- social media followers
- 45782
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; 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. On September 18, 2006, she became the first Iranian person to be in outer 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 American engineer Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.
She is also the chief executive officer of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the Ansari family is the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anousheh Ansari” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.