Jul 27, 2015
Feature Guest: Anousheh Ansari
Her name is synonymous with private space travel.
Anousheh Ansari’s $10 million donation enabled the Ansari X-Prize
to catalyze the private space industry. And in 2006 Ansari herself
became the first female private space explorer when she visited the
ISS. Today Anousheh Ansari joins us here at The Star Spot to
discuss her amazing life and how the Space Ambassador aims to use
her unique experiences to improve life on Earth.
This will be the last episode featuring an interview conducted at the International Space Development Conference, hosted this past May 2015 in Toronto.
Current in Space
From a few pixels to bizarre and tantalizing surface
features. Today's news features a special Pluto theme in honour of
the arrival of the New Horizons space probe at the tiny world of
rock and ice. First Dave offers an homage to the discoveries we
have already made both regarding Pluto and its many neighbours, as
data is only beginning to be analyzed. Then Anuj focuses on Pluto's
biggest moon, Charon, a world unto itself.
About our Guest
Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer who
served as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies. Her family
were title sponsors of the Ansari X Prize, which was awarded to the
first non-government company to launch a reusable manned spacecraft
into space twice within two weeks. Ansari became the first female
space traveller when she visited the ISS in 2006. She is the author
of the memoir My Dream of Stars and co-founder and
chairwoman of Prodea Systems