A Conversation with Anousheh Ansari

from Iran Explained Hosted by Saman Askari

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Anousheh Ansari, the first ever person of Iranian descent to travel to space and the first female self-funded space traveler of any nationality. Anousheh and I talk about her spaceflight experience, her background and how her Iranian identity has affected her life, the controversy around having an Iranian flag on her spacesuit, the overview effect and the epiphanies she had looking down on planet earth from space, the future of space travel, her take on the current political situation in Iran and other topics. Support the show

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