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http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp Speech Confronting Iran DC International Connection Ansari, Ali Massoud Professor, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), Modern History Ali Ansari talked about his book "Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East," published by Perseus Books Group.

A US national of Iranian origin could be the first female space tourist and may travel aboard a Russian vessel to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2007, Russia's space agency Roskosmos said Friday. "We have signed a preliminary contract with (Anoushe) Ansari under which she is training as a back-up for Japanese space tourist Daisuke Enomoto," Alexei Krasnov, in charge of manned space flights, was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying.

Iranian set to become first Muslim woman in orbit 25/03/2006 An Iranian entrepreneur Anoushe is set to become the first Muslim woman to travel in space. Ansari, founder and president of the US-based Telecom Technologies Company will be part of the crew of the Russian Soyuz space mission scheduled for 2007. "Exploring space has been my dream since childhood which I am about to realise," says Ansari 38, adding that to be "the first Middle Eastern woman to travel in space is a great honour." In 2005 Telecom Technologies sponsored the award of a 10 million dollar prize to the...

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).

It all started as a rather pleasant, if not exciting evening. We had heard a speech from British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw once again trying to "explain" the evil of Islamofascim in pseudo-theological, rather than political, terms. But that had been compensated for with a poem from the great mystic poet Roumi recited by Iranian journalist Nazanin Ansari. Apart from the usual contingent of "the great and the good" most of the 800 or so people present were media people and their friends, come to cheer or boo as the Foreign Press Association in London distributed its annual prizes. The...

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 (Kolkata): Dubai-based mafia don Aftab Ansari, who masterminded the attack on Kolkata's American Centre in January 2002, was convicted today. He, along with six others, has been found guilty of conspiracy to wage a war against the nation and the murder of five policemen.

The Ansari X Prize demonstrated that privately-funded prizes can be effective; is the same true for government-sponsored prizes? The major news services haven’t picked up the story yet, but Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has already thrown down the gauntlet for the next great space contest: a $100-million government-sponsored space prize. On October 8, Rohrabacher submitted the “Space and Aeronautics Prize Act” (HR 5336) to the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation calls for the formation of a “Space and Aeronautics Prize” valued at up to $100 million. To claim the prize, a private group must fly a three-person spaceship of...

SpaceShipOne visionary Peter Diamandis wasn't thinking about history as he stood in the Mojave desert and watched a small, shuttlecock-shaped craft glide back to Earth having nudged the edge of space. He just thought it looked beautiful. It was only the following day, after the thousands of cheering spectators had disappeared, after the jubilant speeches had dried up along with the champagne, as Diamandis was driving his father back to Los Angeles, that euphoria — and relief — swept over him. So many people had trusted him, backed him, bailed him out even when others had ridiculed his notion of...

When SpaceShipOne makes its historic attempt at a second suborbital flight within one week on Monday, 1,411 elementary school students, parents and teachers from the Rancho Vista area will be watching from the tarmac, thanks to developer R. Gregg Anderson of Rancho Vista Development. If the Mojave-built spacecraft reaches its target altitude of 328,000 feet, or 100 km, it will win the $10 million Ansari X-Prize, which is aimed at jump-starting a commercial space tourism industry. To win, a team must launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people (or a pilot and the equivalent weight of two passengers) into...

MOJAVE - One down, one to go. Following its successful spaceflight Wednesday morning, SpaceShipOne will attempt the second flight required to win the $10 million Ansari , on Monday, Oct. 4, barring any unforeseen problems or weather difficulties. The Burt Rutan-designed spacecraft rocketed to an official, but not final, altitude of 337,500 feet, well over the 328,000 feet required by the competition rules. The Ansari X-Prize, an international competition to jump-start the commercial space-travel industry, will award $10 million to the first privately funded team to successfully build and launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people to 100 kilometers...