Anousheh: "Imagine, Inspire, Be the Change!"

Cosmonaut Anousheh Ansari has a new web site HERE to enable fans and friends to follow this true space pioneer into earth orbit. The new web page features her information about the first female private space tourist, her mission goals, news, photos of her cosmonaut flight training, and her space flight patch.

The Anousheh Ansari space flight patch motto is: "Imagine, Inspire, Be the Change." The patch also features the United States and Iran flags as symbols of her Iranian-American heritage.

As a child, Anousheh Ansari begged her mother to let her sleep on the balcony of their home near Tehran, Iran. She would gaze into the velvety darkness, drift off to sleep and visit the stars. Most childhood dreams disappear when the sun rises on adulthood and people are blinded by responsibilities, time and money.

But it didn't happen that way for Mrs. Ansari, a Texas businesswoman, who could not speak English when she immigrated to nothern Virginia as a teenager. In 2000, she sold her family's telecommunications business for $750 million and she is now launching a new telecom business along with partnerships to build a suborbital space fleet complete with two commercial tourist spaceports. On the web: http://www.anoushehansari.com/