Anousheh Ansari
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Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian in space. Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, co-written with Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.
Ansari holds a plant grown in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.
The Crew of Soyuz TMA-9: Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (left), Anousheh Ansari (middle) and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Sept. 5, 2006
Anousheh Ansari at AI for Good Global Summit (2018)
Iranian Americans
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Iranian Americans are citizens or nationals of the United States who are of Iranian ancestry.
Max Amini, Persian American stand-up comedian.
The Los Angeles metropolitan area has the largest concentration of Iranian-Americans. An area along Westwood Boulevard in Los Angeles has been officially designated Persian Square by the city.
Public party during Chaharshanbe Suri in San Antonio.
Shahrvand newsletter has been published in Dallas for over 20 years.