Guest: Anousheh Ansari. Anousheh Ansari was the guest for the first hour of this Space Show program with the remainder of this nearly 2 hour program filled by Open Lines. Please visit Anousheh's website ( www.anoushehansari.com) for more information about her activities, interests, appearances, as well as her blog that she wrote aboard the ISS. We started the program by asking Anousheh about her interests in business and electronics and what triggered these interests for her. This led to a question regarding Anousheh and her family's interest in space as well as how her interest in space developed. You will want to hear her answers to these questions. She received several listener questions about her space experiences, both good and bad, on the ISS and on the Soyuz. One listener with three daughters asked about the difficulties of washing long hair in microgravity. After telling us a little about that experience, Anousheh directed the listener to her website where she has pictures of washing her hair onboard the ISS. One listener asked about possible sponsorship of future X-Prize contests. Another listener asked about the four languages her blog is in and Anousheh told us a very interesting story about those translations. Education and international collaboration are strong pursuits for Ms. Ansari and we spoke about this subject at length. One question involved which type of audience she considered her most challenging, surprisingly she answered high school students! You will certainly want to hear why. Listen carefully to what some people ask her, showing what they don't know about our space program. For example, many do not know there is an International Space Station and others thought she had gone to the Moon, not the ISS. Ms. Ansari also shared with us her approach to dealing with discrimination and negativity. Everyone will profit from listening to her approach to this problem as she clearly turns it into a non-issue. If you want to ask questions to Anousheh Ansari, please visit her website and use the contact links provided, or you can use Anousheh@anoushehansari.com. Please reference The Space Show in the subject line.
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