Anousheh Ansari on September 18, 2006, a 40 year old woman, was the first female private space explorer.[4] She was launched off from Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft[5] She migrated from Iran to America when she was about 17, in 1984.[6] In 1933, her husband, Hamid Ansari and brother in law, Amir Ansari worked together and funded a company called Telecom Technologies Inc.[7] Ansari received her bachelor's in computer and electrons engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Soon after, she completed her masters in Washington D.C at George Washington University.[6] Anousheh spoke several different languages, such as Farsi, French, English, and Russian - which she learned for her spaceflight.[5]