Anousheh Ansari Anousheh Ansari was born in 1966 in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad, a town of parks and mosques, nestled in the valley of the Nashaf River. Her mother came from a long line of holy men, and her father from a proud family of prosperous merchants. Years before…
Firouz Michael Naderi Firouz Michael Naderi (Persian: فیروز نادری: Fīrouz Nāderi; March 25, 1946 – June 9, 2023) was an Iranian American scientist who spent 36 years in various technical and executive positions at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he contributed to some of America’s robotic space missions. Naderi retired from NASA in 2016 and most recently was…
Jasmin Moghbeli Jasmin Moghbeli (born June 24, 1983) is an American U.S. Marine Corps test pilot and NASA astronaut. She is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Naval Postgraduate School and Naval Test Pilot School. Moghbeli is of Iranian descent and is the mission commander for SpaceX’s Crew-7 and flight engineer aboard the International Space Station. Early life…
