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Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur. Anousheh 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 served as the CEO and Chairwoman of Prodea Systems, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) technology firm she co-founded in 2006. While under her leaders…
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business · Iranian-American engineer and space tourist (born 1966) · businessperson · astronaut · engineer · astronomer · entrepreneur · space tourist · business executive · also Anousheh Ansari, Anousheh Raissyan, Ansari
Born 12 September 1966 · Q17519
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I hope to inspire everyone—especially young people, women, and young girls all over the world, and in Middle Eastern countries that do not provide women with the same opportunities as men—not to give up their dreams and to pursue them... It may seem impossible to them at times. But I believe they can realize their dreams if they keep it in their hearts, nurture it, and look for opportunities and make those opportunities happen.
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“I hope to inspire everyone—especially young people, women, and young girls all over the world, and in Middle Eastern countries that do not provide women with the same opportunities as men—not to give up their dreams and to pursue them... It may seem impossible to them at times. But I believe they can realize their dreams if they keep it in their hearts, nurture it, and look for opportunities and make those opportunities happen.”
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Ansari received an honorary Doctorate of Science from Swinburne University of Technology
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2017· 1 entry
And Firouz Naderi represented Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi at the 89th Academy Awards
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2015· 1 entry
The National Space Society awarded Ansari the Space Pioneer Award for her "Service to the Space Community
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2010).
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Was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor recognition of her humanitarian efforts
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2009· 2 entries
Ansari was featured in the documentary film Space Tourists by independent Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei about billionaires who paid to ride to the International Space Station aboard Russian spacecraft
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Received the first NCWIT Symons Innovator Award given annually by the National Center for Women & Information Technology to honor successful women entrepreneurs in technology
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2006· 5 entries
At 01:13 UTC on the steppes of Kazakhstan (90 kilometers north of Arkalyk) with U
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Told reporters she had no regrets and said, "I am having a wonderful time here
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Enomoto was medically disqualified from flying the Soyuz TMA-9 mission that was due to launch the following month
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Co-founded Prodea Systems, becoming its chairwoman and CEO
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“I am having a wonderful time here. It”
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2004· 1 entry
The 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight
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2001· 1 entry
And honored by Working Woman as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award
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1993· 1 entry
Persuaded her husband and her brother-in-law, Amir Ansari, to co-found Telecom Technologies Inc
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1984· 1 entry
As a teenager, and attended a high school in Northern Virginia, Lake Braddock
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1979· 1 entry
And recalls memories of "hearing gun shots, screaming, people being killed, and explosions"
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-09-12.
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