Iranian Woman in Space

[Tokyo]

Rich Iranian woman pays to go to space. She is worth over $600 Million!http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060824_ansari_tourist.html

[Tokyo]

More about Anousheh Ansari, wolrd's first female space tourist. http://www.space.com/news/060810_ansari_spaceprep.html

[Tokyo]

Anoosheh Ansari An Inspiration to WomenAnousheh Ansari once dreamed of being an astronaut while growing up in her native Tehran, Iran. Today the 34-year-old Anoosheh is the Vice President and General Manager of the IntelligentIP division of Sonus Networks, formed in January 2001 through Sonus' acquisition of ÒTelecom Technologies Inc.Ó, the company that Anoosheh founded and turned into a force in the telecommunication industry. Immediately prior to founding Telecom Technologies, Anoosheh provided consulting services to the major telecommunications service providers and vendors in the areas of frame relay and ATM switch testing and evaluation.Her early career employment included positions with MCI Telecommunications Corporation and Communication Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) in various engineering capacities working on architectural design for SS7 and ISDN networks. Anoosheh was the recipient of Working Woman Magazine's National and Regional Entrepreneurial Excellence award for General Excellence and Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year¨ Award, Southwest Region, for the Technology and Communications category. She has authored numerous technical papers and holds two patents for her work on automated operator services and wireless service node. She was a U.S. delegate at ITU SG VII, SG XI and SG XVII, and a representative at American National Standard Institute technical subcommittees.She holds a master's of science degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University and a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from George Mason University. She is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE and NSPE.

[Tokyo]

Anousheh Ansari is president, founder, and CEO of telecom technologies, inc. (tti), a supplier of softswitch based solutions for network and service providers offering end-to-end solutions for next generation, carrier-grade multi-service networks. Prior to founding tti, Ansari provided consulting services to the major telecommunications service providers and vendors in the areas of Frame Relay and ATM switch testing and evaluation. Early in her career, Ansari held positions with MCI Telecommunications Corporation and Communication Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) in various engineering capacities. She worked on architectural design for SS7 and ISDN networks.Ansari was recognized by Working Woman magazine as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award, and was chosen as the winner of the 1999 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Southwest Region, for the Technology and Communications category. She has authored numerous technical papers and has two patents for her work on Automated Operator Services and Wireless Service Node. She was a U.S. delegate at ITU SG VII, SG XI and SG XVII, and a representative at American National Standard Institute T1S1 and T1X1 Technical Subcommittees.Ansari holds a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from George Mason University. She is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE and NSPE. Success 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence Award winner: Anousheh Ansari, CEO and chair of Telecom Technologies on the cover of Working Magazine (May 2000). "Anousheh Ansari once dreamed of being an astronaut while growing up in her native Tehran, Iran. Today the 33-year-old Ansari is turning upstart Telecom Technologies Inc into a force in the telecommunications industry." http://www.siliconiran.com/company_profiles/top_officers/officers/anousheh_ansari.shtml

[Tokyo]

If any of you is Iranian and lives in the U.S. go to a Barnes and Noble store and pick up a copy of Silicon Iran, it is a quarterly magazine that cameout a few years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari

[Tokyo]

A list of famous Iranian women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_Persian_women

[Tokyo]

Iranians are the most successful minorities in the U.S, UAE, Kuwait, India and many countries in Europe. They make more money than any other minority and are more educated. They have accomplished all this by being given freedom by the government of the countries that have given them shelter. Unfortunately their own government refuses to give them freedom and for the last 27 years have robbed the entire population of a good education and prosperity. And with more sanctions looming over Iran, the future looks dimmer for the Iranian people.

[Rascal]

@ Tokyo->The sad part is that Iranians have to leave Iran to be really successfull and free,wouldn't you say?

[Tokyo]

It is indeed sad that Iranians who have a 7000 year old civilization have to go to other countries to have freedom and to be successful. The insane part is, the ancient Persians were the first people that wrote the book on human rights and equality for people of all races, religions and gender. Those laws were written 3000 years ago and today Iran is one of the worst countries as far as human rights and freedom goes. For 2500 years they were considered the saviour and friend of Jews and today thanks to an Arab takeover everything has turned upside down.

[Rascal]

Iran used to have ,what 1/4 million jews?They now have ...50,000 or less.

Its just like the amount of Iranians that left after the bull**** revolution in '79.Approx 7 million.

[Tokyo]

Same with Armenians and other minorities in Iran. I like the avatar, but I think we should ask admin if we could have larger avatars and larger profile pictures.

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Iranians are the most successful minorities in the U.S, UAE, Kuwait, India and many countries in Europe. They make more money than any other minority and are more educated. They have accomplished all this by being given freedom by the government of the countries that have given them shelter. Unfortunately their own government refuses to give them freedom and for the last 27 years have robbed the entire population of a good education and prosperity. And with more sanctions looming over Iran, the future looks dimmer for the Iranian people.

Yep...have to get the hell out of Iran to make anything of themselves....what a sorry state of affairs that is!!!!

[Tokyo]

Everyone you talk to says he/she wants to leave Iran, young people in Iran have no hope left they are depressed and the drown their sorrows on homemade booz and Drugs. Iran has the highest percentage of junkies in the world. Even a lot of rich people are leaving Iran. Governmment uses any excuse to put you in jail and then when you pay a lot of money they will let you go!One of the governments biggest moneymakers is the go to jail and pay program in Iran.http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=Anousheh+Ansari&c=news_photos

[Tokyo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060917/sc_space/firstfemalespacetouristnextisscrewsettolaunch

[Tokyo]

http://www.spacescience.ir/Anousheh_Ansari.htm

[Tokyo]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - She says space smells like a "burned almond cookie." She praises the wonders of Velcro, and describes the hazards of trying to wash her hair in zero gravity.

Space tourist Anousheh Ansari's blog offers uncommon insight into everyday life on the international space station through the eyes of an American businesswoman.
Her 10-day adventure ends tonight when she touches down in a Soyuz vehicle on the steppes of Kazakhstan along with Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams.
"It is hard for me to write tonight," she wrote Thursday in her last posting from space. "My emotions are high and there are millions of thoughts going through my head."
The 40-year-old Iranian-born Dallas suburbanite, who sometime signed her entries "Space Cadet," paid $20 million for her adventure. She was a last-minute substitute for a Japanese businessman who failed a medical test for space flight.
Although she has a master's degree in engineering and made a fortune in the telecommunications industry, Ansari's blog entries have been free of tech-heavy jargon, exhibiting an enthusiastic, chatty style. She tackled topics that vintage, tough-guy astronauts such as Alan Shepard surely would have shirked from: motion sickness, the clumsiness of weightlessness and personal hygiene.
"Well my friends, I must admit keeping good hygiene in space is not easy!" she wrote in the opening of one entry as if a columnist for Cosmopolitan.
She then described washing her hair by opening a water bag to make a huge bubble over her head, rubbing in dry shampoo and then being careful not to make sudden movements that would burst the bubble into small pieces of water floating everywhere.
Zero gravity has made it impossible to keep objects from drifting away, she wrote.
"So God invented Velcro for this very purpose. Shhhh! Don't tell anyone up here but I've lost a few little things already, like my lip-gloss."
One night, she discovered her toes were bruised from gripping bars along the walls of the space station. She informed readers that she uses her big toe to hold herself in one place.
And she wrote about the smell of space — at least the space inside the orbiting lab: "It was strange ... kind of like burned almond cookie."
At least eight astronauts have kept online diaries recording their stay at the space station, but they weren't traditional blogs since readers couldn't post responses, as they have on Ansari's blog. Astronaut Ed Liu even described the nitty-gritty details of going to the bathroom at the space station.
But few achieve the entertaining, intimate tone of Ansari's entries.
Her status as a private citizen gives her more liberty to describe the details of everyday life than active astronauts or cosmonauts, said Eligar Sadeh, professor of space studies at the University of North Dakota.
"Given the constraints the astronauts operate under, not being able to necessarily speak freely or share the real insights or thoughts, given concerns of them being government employees," Sadeh said. "Clearly (the blog) is an inspiration as well for many individuals."
Hundreds of those individuals from around the globe have left comments on Ansari's blog.

"I've been involved with the theme of manned spaceflight as a hobby (passion?) for more than 25 years, read a lot of books ... spoken to numerous astronauts and cosmonauts," wrote Luc van den Abeelen of the Netherlands in Ansari's blog. "But only reading your blog entries do I really get a taste of what it is like to be in space."
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On the Net:
Ansari's blog: http://www.anoushehansari.com/ (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_sc/storytext/space_tourist_blog/20444918/SIG=11024pe16/*http://www.anoushehansari.com/)
Astronaut journals: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/astronauts/journals_astronauts.html (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/astronauts/journals_astronauts.html)


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In this image from NASA TV, the crew on the International Space Station hold a news conference in this Friday, Sept. 22, 2006 file photo. Front from left: Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari and flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin. In the back flight engineer Jeffrey Williams answering a question with flight engineer Thomas Reiter and Commander Pavel Vinogradov. Space tourist Ansari has been keping a blog that offers uncommon insight into everyday life on the international space station through the eyes of an American businesswoman. (AP Photo/NASA TV, File)

[Tokyo]

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http://www.anoushehansari.com/

[Rascal]

I watched on the news the other day when she landed.Any idea on who paid the bill for her to go to space?

Anyways it is a great achivement.Too bad Iranian women have to leave their country to reach full independance and freedom.