Anousheh Ansari, the world's first female private astronaut, who was part of an eight-day expedition to the International Space Station last September, speaking during a press conference at the Yuri's Night Celebration at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California on April 13, 2007. Yuri's Night was a worldwide celebration of the anniversary of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's 1961 flight as the first human in space.



















