A redditor wrote in r/science
On “Prize AMA: I am Anousheh Ansari, the first woman and first Iranian to fly to space as a private citizen, not on behalf of a government. AMA!”
Would you say that you've always had a passion for space flight? Or was this more of an adventure you were able to fulfill like a check off of a bucket list? What was the training before your flight like and how long before the flight date did you have to train? I desperately…
u/Anousheh_Ansari replied
I wanted to go to space since I was 6 years old. I never knew how because I was living in Iran but I just knew I would find a way. I even prayed for aliens to abduct me :)
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