Anousheh Ansari is very cool

I met Anousheh Ansari last Friday before she gave a lecture to an audience at Stanford University. She was the first woman to go into space on a private exploration. She was also the first person to blog from space. For a woman who made it big in the private sector before going on to start the Ansari X-Prize, she was surprisingly shy-seeming and incredibly nice. She hopes her story will inspire women all over the world and I will admit to being one of them (that said, my husband was pretty inspired too). Ansari is very cool.