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Forum:	Patches & Pins
Topic:	Soyuz TMA-9: Spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari's personal mission patch

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]<img src="http://collectspace.com/review/ansari_patch.jpg" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="500"> Soyuz TMA-9 spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari's personal mission patch and choice of flags has caught the attention of the media: [list][][URL=http://rawstory.com/news/2006/US_Iranian_flags_to_travel_into_spa_08302006.html]Deutsche Presse Agentur[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran, their flags will fly side by side to the International Space Station in mid-September, the world's first woman space tourist Anousheh Ansari said Wednesday. The 39-year-old businesswoman spent the first 16 years of her life in Tehran before emigrating to the US, and will carry a joint tribute to her origins on her flight suit during a ten-day trip to the ISS. "That's why both countries are on here," she said at the Gagarin cosmonaut training facility at Star City by Moscow.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> [][URL=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/24/tech/main1932929.shtml]CBS News[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]"I was born in Iran, and I have sentimental attachment to that country," Ansari says. "But if it wasn't for all the opportunities and education I received in the United States, I wouldn't be here today." Ansari, who emigrated to America when she was 14, was educated at George Mason University in Virginia and George Washington University in Washington. She's acknowledging her roots by wearing two flag patches on the sleeves of her flight suit -- one American, one Iranian.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> [*][URL=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Russia_Space_Launch.html]Associated Press[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Dressed in civilian clothes, Ansari said she had worn shoulder patches with the U.S. flag and a flag with Iranian colors at a recent appearance because "both countries had something to do with the person I am today." Ansari moved to the United States when she was 16 years old. "I feel very close to the Iranian people and the culture of the country," she said.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/list] On her [URL=http://www.anoushehansari.com/]website[/URL], Ansari uses the title "First Space Ambassador", hinting at her stated desire to use her flight to inspire positive images of the Middle East among Westerners. Though she will be the first space explorer of Iranian descent, her Iranian flags will not be the first to have flown to orbit... or beyond. In [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/resources/moonrocks_apollo11.html]1969[/URL], and again in [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/resources/moonrocks_goodwill.html]1972[/URL], Iranian flags were carried aboard U.S. Apollo spacecraft to the Moon and were later presented to the nation with a small sample of lunar material as goodwill gifts.[/B][/QUOTE]
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