Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American business woman and female space tourist. She is the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman in space and the first female space tourist in history. Although Ansari has expressed that she does not consider herself a "space tourist", and prefers the title of "spaceflight participant".
Anousheh Ansari, spaceflight participant, who spent 11 days in space and 9 days on the ISS under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency, is surrounded by Russian and American search and recovery teams on the steppe of central Kazakhstan on Sept. 29, 2006. This came a short while after the landing in the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft following undocking earlier in the day from the International Space Station. Out of the frame are cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, Expedition 13 commander, and astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, who shared 183 days in space.
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