File:AnoushehAnsari.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Anousheh Ansari
Sign in to saveAlso known as Anousheh Raissyan
Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur
Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur who became the first female space tourist when she traveled to the International Space Station in 2006. Her achievement was significant because it demonstrated that space travel could be accessible to private citizens and inspired broader public interest in commercial spaceflight.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
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
Show 8 more facts
- 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)
via Wikidata · CC0
~15 min read
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.