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Anousheh Ansari

12 September 1966 – present

Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer and businesswoman who co-founded the telecommunications company Telecom Technologies and later Prodea Systems. With her family she became the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. In September 2006 she flew to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, becoming the first Iranian in space, and she became chief executive of the XPRIZE Foundation in 2018.

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Born in Mashhad, Iran
12 September 1966
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Emigrated to the United States as a teenager
1984

Moved to the United States without speaking English and settled with family there.

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Earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science
c. 1988

Studied at George Mason University in Virginia.

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Earned a master's degree in electrical engineering
c. 1992

Completed the degree at George Washington University.

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Co-founded Telecom Technologies, Inc.
1993

Started the company with her husband Hamid Ansari and his brother Amir Ansari.

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Telecom Technologies merged with Sonus Networks
2000

The transaction gave the family the capital for their later ventures.

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Became title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize
2004

The family's donation renamed the competition for suborbital private spaceflight, won that year by SpaceShipOne.

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Co-founded Prodea Systems
2006

Established a technology company in Texas serving as its chief executive.

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Flew to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-9
18 September 2006 – 29 September 2006

Spent about eight days aboard the station as a self-funded spaceflight participant.

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Became chief executive officer of the XPRIZE Foundation
2018
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