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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

6 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.)

"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!

11 posted on 09/15/2006 12:58:38 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)

A Saudi prince flew on the shuttle in 1985.

http://www.astronautix.com/astros/alsaud.htm

13 posted on 09/15/2006 1:08:01 PM PDT by Dixiekraut (Convey)

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