First name and last name | Anousheh Ansari |
Date of birth | 12.09.1966 |
Nationality | USA |
Status | Retired |
Type of astronaut | Non-astronaut passenger |
X | https://twitter.com/AnoushehAnsari |
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari |
https://www.instagram.com/anousheh_x/ |
Soyuz TMA-9
Anousheh Ansari (born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian-American engineer. 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.