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Anousheh Ansari is scheduled to travel into space Monday aboard a Russian rocket, becoming the first woman space tourist.
Age: 40, born Sept. 12, 1966, in Mashhad, a city in northern Iran.
Education: Bachelor's degree in electronics and computer engineering from George Mason University in Virginia; master's degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University.
Career: Co-founder and chief executive of telecom technologies inc., a maker of software for switching signals on phone networks in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas. Company was sold in 2000 to Sonus Networks Inc., which says it paid $552.6 million in Sonus stock. Was a vice president at Sonus. Co-founded venture-capital and home-networking-technology firm Prodea Systems Inc. in Plano, Texas. Helped finance the Ansari X Prize in 2002, which paid $10 million to the operators of SpaceShipOne for being first to make two successful privately financed manned trips into space.
Family: Lives in Plano with husband, Hamid, who co-founded the Ansari companies. No children.
Quote: "People think they reach the height of their life at age 40. I'm hoping this is just the beginning of another hill that I will be climbing."
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| Marcus007 |
552 million...
HOLY ! |
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| Caela |
| wow...that's a lot of money that could be better used feeding/clothing/educating those less fortunate :rolleyes: |
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| Marcus007 |
What a cute little idealistic girl...
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Caela
wow...that's a lot of money that could be better used feeding/clothing/educating those less fortunate :rolleyes: |
I suppose...but this isn't a publicly funded mission.
20M is nothing compared to the extravagances of celebrities and royalty, and to have the opportunity to make history? I would say there are far more senseless wastes of money in the world! |
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| 404 Science |
| w00t engineers in space... |
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| Marcus007 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
I would say there are far more senseless wastes of money in the world! |
Like Paris Hilton... |
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