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In her heartwarming and empowering memoir, space pioneer Anousheh Ansari tells the story of her childhood in Iran and her family's exodus to America after the Islamic Revolution. After settling down in Texas, Anousheh built a computer technology firm from the ground up, which eventually realized a net worth of $750 million and ultimately allowed her to achieve her childhood dream of spaceflight. In her groundbreaking role as the first-ever female commercial spaceflight participant, her story became politicized and fraught with the prejudices and obstacles she had to overcome as an Iranian woman, culminating in a debate over whether she would be allowed to display both the American and Iranian flags on the sleeve of her spacesuit.
After her return to Earth, Anousheh started The Ansari Foundation, a quickly growing nonprofit which supports social entrepreneurship, and is especially committed to ensuring the freedom of women around the world and supporting female entrepreneurs. Ultimately, this evocative story shows the triumph of a woman who has become a role model to people around the globe struggling to overcome economic and cultural barriers, as well as those dreamers who look upon the stars and wish to soar among them.
- Sales Rank: #888848 in Books
- Published on: 2011-04-26
- Released on: 2011-04-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .58" w x 6.00" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
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In this breezy memoir, Ansari documents how she became the first Muslim woman to travel into space. From a difficult childhood in Tehran, through immigration and personal and professional success in the U.S., she provides an inside look at her life and lifelong dream to enter space. Hitting it big in the telecommunications business provided the finances, and involvement in the X Prize brought the connections, enabling her to enter the Russian space program in 2006. Her descriptions of cosmonaut training are particularly interesting, although even here she takes care to avoid comment on serious controversies. Readers expecting a visceral punch from coauthor Hickam (Rocket Boys, 1998) will be disappointed; his voice is largely absent. Just following how Ansari accomplished her dream will be interesting enough to space fans, but although her story is emotional, her writing does not rise to the level of her subject. Ansari delivers a straightforward account of a widely watched event; for more, we await a worthy historian. --Colleen Mondor
Review
“From Iranian refugee to astronaut... This is an amazing biography, an inspiring true story of a woman with huge dreams and the courage of a lion. Only in America...I loved this book, and you will too.” ―Stephen Coonts, author of The Disciple, and fifteen New York Times bestselling books
“In My Dream of Stars, Anousheh Ansari allows readers to experience the magic of space while sharing the triumphant story that brought her there. This is an awe-inspiring and heartwarming book.” ―Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut, Apollo XI
“As an entrepreneur myself, I can appreciate the significant challenges Anousheh Anasari overcame to make her dreams a reality. Her story is a testament to the power of conviction and to the understanding that through true commitment and unwavering focus, even the unimaginable is possible.” ―Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors
“An astonishing and almost improbable but very human journey - one deftly captured in this book. "I saw a small crystal float away from me... a pretty little diamond... it was one of my tears... My beautiful planet, under the warm rays of the sun, turned gracefully beneath me. I was entranced." Wow - that is just a stunner. I had tears in my eyes reading that passage.” ―Keith Cowing, Editor, NASAWATCH
About the Author
Anousheh Ansari was born in Mashhad, Iran and immigrated to America to eventually become the fourth-ever commercial spaceflight participant and the first Muslim woman to traverse the far reaches of outer space. She is also the founder of the multi-million dollar firm Telecom Technologies and of the Ahoora Foundation. She lives in Dallas, Texas.
Homer Hickam is the acclaimed author of Rocket Boys, which was adapted into the major theatrical release, October Sky. He is the author of eight other books, including the 1989 military nonfiction bestseller Torpedo Junction and the New York Times bestseller Back to the Moon. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Great Book for Space Fans and Science Teachers!
By Stewart Tick
I've been a big Homer Hickam fan ever since "Rocket Boys" was first released. Although I am about a decade younger, our stories paralleled each other in so many ways! I was also enthralled by the early days of the Space Age, and wanted to be an astronaut or rocket scientist - or both. And I too collaborated with my neighborhood friends on homemade rockets (although we never got ours above 3,000 ft. or so). And now I find that Anousheh Ansari's experiences while coming of age mirror my own as well. I was a freshman in high school when "Star Trek" premiered on network TV. I was an instant devotee - though unlike Anousheh, I admittedly admired the ever-resourceful Capt. Kirk more than that somewhat strange and offbeat intellectual Mr. Spock!
Like Homer - and unlike Anousheh - I never actually made it into space. But I ended up becoming a science teacher, which isn't too bad, either. In fact, I'm now teaching chemistry and physics, the same subjects that Miss Riley taught Homer and the rest of the Rocket Boys! I loved this book for the same reasons as "Rocket Boys" - it described exactly how I also felt about space exploration while I was growing up. (As Homer put it, "like the science fiction I had read all my life was coming true".)
I'm really hoping that "My Dream of Stars" becomes the basis of a movie, like "Rocket Boys" did with the release of "October Sky". If so, I'd certainly enjoy showing the DVD to my students, probably in March to help motivate them before their statewide science exams (as my school did with "October Sky" this year). Needless to say, I will be recommending this book to my students, especially to the girls in our engineering program!
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
An astonishing and almost improbable but very human journey
By Keith L. Cowing
I have been reading books about space since, well, since I learned how to read. Indeed this is how I learned to really read a book - since the books I had to read in school were lame. Nearly half a century later, I have read an unknown number of books that chronicle the life stories of those who have come to be involved with the exploration of space. Every book is different yet every book is the same since the paths that people took were similar and overlapping. Some came from Nazi Germany, others from small towns in America or Russia.
But until now I had not read a story of someone who aspired to touch the stars from the midst of revolution-racked Iran.
Such is the story of Anousheh Raissyan - better known by her married name, Ansari. In describing "My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer" I just want to tell you all that is in it - but that is Anousheh's task - done with the deft guidance of Homer Hickam. Homer first gained notoriety as the author of "Rocket Boys" - which also chronicled an improbable journey from a poor coal mining town in West Virginia to a long career at NASA. A better guide Anousheh could not have found.
The story Anousheh tells begins in an Iran that was still ruled by the Shah. All too soon the fires of revolution swept up the entire nation - not just the young men, but old people and little girls. Yet through out this tumultuous and very dangerous time, Anousheh managed to find solace albeit fleeting by looking up at the stars at night and visiting them in her mind.
As I turned the pages of this book I was reminded of a time in my life when these same events in Iran affected me. I was in graduate school in the early 1980s and had an office mate who I will simply refer to as "Reza". Reza came from a wealthy family in Teheran and was studying to be a doctor when the revolution exploded. He was caught outside the country and unable to return. With no access to families assistance he as stranded in a foreign country unable to get home.
I often hired Reza to work with me as a house painter. He was happy for the work and worked his butt off. I saw something in Reza that comes through clearly in this book through Anousheh's words: an unflinching determination to not let life's current troubles get in the way realizing a dream. The more dire the circumstances, it seems the more pronounced her will to push through and surmount adversity.
Eventually, Anousheh and parts of her family made their way to America. Unlike many newcomers she did not isolate herself from the cacaphony of opportunity that is America. Rather, she dived right in. Meeting her husband, she and others soon accomplished the quintessential American dream when their start-up made them millionaires.
Throughout it all, that dream of stars would not go away. Augmented with what Elon Musk often refers to as "non-trvial resources" Anousheh went from dreaming about stars to thinking about actually visiting them. Eventually she acted on her dream and found herself training as a backup for another commercial space traveller in Russia. An unexpected medical disqualification with the prime passenger and suddenly she was mere weeks away for a trip into space.
These days when you make one of these trips, you have to do something with the nortoriety. Everyone who does this finds a different way to do it. In Anousheh's case, she was suc an improbable space traveller that there was intrinsic interest that really did not need to be generated - just channeled.
During her flight she sent updates from space that were posted in a blog. The claim from her PR flaks being made was that she was the "first blogger in space". Well, I got into nit picking and jumped on that since she was emailing from space - not blogging. But over the days as her mission proceeded I saw some startling things in the comments that appeared on her site. Many were in Farsi but many were in passable English. The sentiments came through loud and clear.
For this instant in time she was pulling her fellow Iranians out of their own daily troubles and bringing them up into space with her. As improbable as her own life story was up to this point it now worked like a magnet on others like her back on Earth. Eventually, I felt compelled to write a retraction of sorts - you can read it
I go there - to that moment - when I read these words.
"My Dream of Stars" is an astonishing and almost improbable but very human journey from war torn Iran to outer space. In reading this book you get the impression that if Anousheh can do something like this then anyone can.
The world is changing. Inevitably, life in space will change too. Some day soon, it will no longer be the sole province of practitioners of the "Right Stuff" from a small group of rich nations. Anousheh was the one of the very first people to see this change with her own eyes - and to redefine who gets to to go - and why. I have no doubt that she will continue to be a force for change back on Earth.
This is her story.
Keith Cowing, editor [..]
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Dream Big
By Mark R. Whittington
One of the reoccurring stories told in American history is that of the young immigrant, arriving to our shores all but penniless, but then acquiring great wealth through hard work, intellect, and a little bit of luck.
It was the sort of story that used to be told to young people as a means of educating them in American exceptionalism, and is thus not very much imparted any more. But that doesn't mean that the penniless immigrant who
arrives in America and becomes wealthy no longer exists. Anousheh Ansari is living proof of that.
Anousheh Ansari, whose first name means "Immortal" or "Eternal", was born in Mashad, Iran, during the reign of the last Shah. Her childhood is described in her memoirs is almost idyllic, perhaps typical of a moderate, middle class family in Iran of that era. But Anousheh Ansari was special in the fact that she had enormous dreams, dreams, as the title of her memoir suggests, of stars.
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