Anousheh Ansari

“I Don’t Want To Blow You Up”

Webloggin (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball sensation who converted to Islam and assumed an Arabic name, does not want to blow you up. Neither do Iranian-American space tourist Anousheh Ansari or Swiss Muslim theologian Tariq Ramadan. Such is the message of a new children’s colouring book, provocatively titled I Don’t Want to Blow You Up, that aims to teach [...]

• Remember kids: truth is stranger than fiction - Covenant Zone
• Anti-terrorism colouring book a bit of a bomb - Canadian Armed Forces Blogger

Don't Miss the Huge Party at NASA Ames Laboratory

Wired Science (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008

On April 12th, NASA Ames Research Center will hold an incredible celebration of space exploration. Last year, the Yuri's Night event was utterly amazing. In a hangar decorated with neon lights, Anousheh Ansari, space tourist and founder of the X...

Is space tourism safe?

HowStuffWorks: Daily Stuff Feed (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008

On Sept. 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari, a telecommunications entrepreneur, became the first female space tourist and the fourth space tourist overall. Could you be next?

Anousheh Ansari in DC

Personal Spaceflight (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008

If you're going to be in Washington, DC next week, you may want to consider attending a brekafast with Anousheh Ansari, to be held Wednesday morning, March 26, at the Library of Congress. The event is organized by Women in Aerospace, with registration fees ranging from $50-85 (not exactly cheap, but you are getting [...]

Virgin Galactic wants space tourists from India!

Tech News at TechWhack (Free subscription) | 10/16/2007

Virgin Galactic wants space tourists from India! Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen, Anousheh Ansari and Charles Simonyi are some of the names that comes to mind when we talk about Space Tourism. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is one such company which aims to provide chance to people to visit space as a tourist. The trip is expensive [...]

Software Engineer Charles Simonyi Blasts Off for Space

Top Tech News (Free subscription) | 04/08/2007

Billionaire software engineer Charles Simonyi, on the verge of blasting off as the world's fifth paying private space traveler, said Friday he hopes his journey will help develop civilian space flight. A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Simonyi and two Russian cosmonauts is to launch Saturday night from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The cosmonauts, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, are to replace...