Posted on 03/16/2006 1:39:00 PM PST by KevinDavis
Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI) and multi-million co-contributor to the X-Prize foundation, is in training in Russia as back up cosmonaut to SFP Daisuke Enomoto (Japan).
Sources in the US are revealing that the role model will begin full training from April, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC).
This better have nothing to do with Dubai or the ports fiasco.
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Anousheh Ansari
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.
From Wikipedia..........
Anousheh Ansari is co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). Along with her brother-in-law Amir Ansari, she made a multi-million contribution to the X-Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight. The X-Prize was officially renamed the Ansari X Prize in honour of their donation.
Born in 1967 in Tehran, Iran, Ansari witnessed the Iranian revolution in 1979. She immigrated to the United States in 1984 at the age of sixteen and received her bachelor's of science in electrical engineering and computer science at George Mason University. She received her master's degree at George Washington University.
Ansari, along with her husband Hamid and brother-in-law Amir, founded TTI in 1993. The company was acquired by Sonus Networks in 2000. Ansari was listed in Fortune magazine's "40 under 40" list in 2001 and honoured by Working Woman magazine as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award.
Most recently, Prodea has announced the formation of a partnership with Space Adventures, Ltd. and the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) to create a fleet of suborbital spaceflight vehicles (the Space Adventures Explorer) for global commercial use.
It was announced on March 16, 2006 that Anousheh Ansari was in training for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station. She will serve as backup to Daisuke Enomoto, who is due to fly on Soyuz TMA-9 on September 14, 2006. Ansari will be the first female space tourist.
better times, I hope
Next in space... A Persian jew.. straight from L.A. to the moon. ;)
Those Persians are good-looking people. Getting those beatiful Persian chicks out of their burkas/ chadors and into something "more comfortable" would be a major bonus to liberating Iran from the mad mullahs.
I predict a marriage boom in Iran the year after the mullahs fall -- and a baby boom the year after that!
The major U.S. exports to Iran will be strollers and Gerber's.
I hereby volunteer to go to Iran to help with that effort. >8^)>~
Why isn't this thread getting any action? Ansari has bumped the tourist ahead of her and is go for launch.
SpaceRef.com
Russian space engineers are modifying a Soyuz capsule for the first female space tourist ahead of a launch for the International Space Station (ISS) next month, officials said Wednesday. "A woman's organism is different, that's why we need to modify some of the life systems in the capsule," Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of the RKK Energia space corporation was quoted by ITAR-TASS as saying.
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