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Interview with Anousheh Ansari, the First Female Space Tourist
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| 9/15/2006
| Sara Goudarzi
Posted on 09/15/2006 12:44:44 PM PDT by Rio
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Liftoff in three days. I can't help having a lot of respect for this woman.
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:44:47 PM PDT
by
Rio
To: Rio
The actual interview is at the link.
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:45:12 PM PDT
by
Rio
(Don't make me come over there....)
To: Rio
I hope women in Iran will know about her.
To: Rio
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:49:32 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Rio
Not that it really matters, but will she be the first Muslim in space - Of either gender? That might twist some turbans if its true.....
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:49:41 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Abathar
Not that it really matters, but will she be the first Muslim in space - Of either gender? That might twist some turbans if its true.....And an American woman as well
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:52:50 PM PDT
by
usmcobra
(I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese, that why I don't sing.)
To: nuconvert
To: Rio
This the same Ansari who sponsored the "X-prize" that Burt Rutan won last year?
"...I have slipped the surly bonds of earth..."
Hope to see more of this in the future!
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE FLYING CARS BY NOW!!!
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:54:27 PM PDT
by
petro45acp
(SUPPORT/BE YOUR LOCAL SHEEPDOG! ("On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs" by Dave Grossman))
To: Abathar
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:54:30 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: petro45acp
"This the same Ansari who sponsored the "X-prize" that Burt Rutan won last year?"
Yup. Same one.
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:57:11 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: usmcobra
"Born in 1966 in Tehran, Iran, Ansari witnessed the Iranian revolution in 1979. She immigrated to the United States in 1984 as a teenager who did not speak English, and received her Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science at George Mason University. She received her master's degree at George Washington University.[2]. Anousheh's family left Tehran for the US because of the Islamic revolution. Prior to co-founding Prodea Systems, Anousheh, along with her husband Hamid and brother-in-law Amir, founded TTI in 1993. The company was acquired by Sonus Networks, Inc. in 2000. Ansari was listed in Fortune magazine's "40 under 40" list in 2001 and honored by Working Woman magazine as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award."Good for her!
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posted on
09/15/2006 12:58:38 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Abathar
I wonder how she will know which direction Mecca is in.
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posted on
09/15/2006 1:06:01 PM PDT
by
Lekker 1
(("...the world will be...eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" -- K. Watt, Earth Day, 1970)
To: usmcobra
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posted on
09/15/2006 1:08:01 PM PDT
by
Dixiekraut
(Convey)
To: Lekker 1
Is she even a practicing muslim? I would say not very much since doing all the things she is doing is probably not allowed.
To: Abathar
Yes, and get those macho idiots' panties in a twist, too.
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posted on
09/15/2006 1:20:50 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: nuconvert
Not nearly as cute as Rudi Bahktiar sp? on Fox.
To: Names Ash Housewares
I have heard her call herself a very liberal Muslim. Kind of like some distant relatives in my family - they were born into a Muslim family, and know about the holidays, but that's about it.
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posted on
09/15/2006 1:23:56 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: July 4th
We need more muslims like her thats for sure!
Godspeed to her and may her flight inspire the women in Iran to cry freedom.
To: nuconvert
I'm thinking this is not going to sit well with most imams.
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posted on
09/15/2006 1:27:48 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
I cant say until she takes off the space suit.
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posted on
09/15/2006 1:30:50 PM PDT
by
isom35
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