and the first Muslim in space. After founding five businesses and earning a series of international distinctions, Ansari states she is ready to spend her “last youthful years in a way that will be fulfilling to her and to the legacy she wants to leave behind.”“I became enamored with space when I was 6 or 7. Perhaps it gave me an escape from the reality around me. I also loved science.
“From space, Earth has no countries or borders. You truly see the planet as one home we all share together, and you see its fragility. That profoundly changes the way you see the world.”“If you put a man and a woman with the exact same business plan and pitch, the tendency is that investors will choose the man over the woman. These are biases that have built over centuries. But there is also the problem that women go after funds, but not growth funds.