Editing Anousheh Ansari (section)

== Awards and honors ==
Ansari has received multiple honors, including the George Mason University Entrepreneurial Excellence Award, the George Washington University Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southwest Region, and the [[Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans|Horatio Alger Award]]. While under her leadership, Telecom Technologies, Inc. earned recognition as one of ''[[Inc. magazine]]''{{'}}s 500 fastest-growing companies and one of [[Deloitte & Touche]]'s [[Fast 500]] technology companies. She was listed in ''[[Fortune Magazine]]''{{'}}s [[40 under 40 (Fortune Magazine)|40 under 40]] list in 2001 and honored by ''[[Working Woman (magazine)|Working Woman]]'' as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award.<ref name=Huffbio>{{cite news| url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/anousheh-ansari| work= [[Huffington Post]] | date= 2006 | title= Anousheh Ansari| access-date= March 21, 2017}}</ref>

In 2009, she received the first NCWIT Symons Innovator Award given annually by the [[National Center for Women & Information Technology]] to honor successful women entrepreneurs in technology.<ref name= Symons>{{cite web| url= https://www.ncwit.org/blog/ncwit-symons-innovator-award| title= NCWIT Symons Innovator Award| date= May 8, 2009| publisher= National Center for Women & Information Technology | website= NCWIT.org| access-date= March 21, 2017}}</ref>

She received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from her alma mater George Mason University on December 20, 2012.

The Ansari family was honored with an [[Orbit Award]] by the [[National Space Society]] and [[Space Tourism Society]] for underwriting the [[Ansari X Prize]].<ref name=borgeons>{{cite web| url= http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/profiling-eileen-borgesons-art-promax-muse-x-prize-pin-space-tourisms-dennis-tito-awards-744056.htm| website= MarketWired.com| date= June 18, 2007 | title= Profiling Eileen Borgeson's Art: Promax Muse, X PRIZE Pin, and Space Tourism's Dennis Tito Awards | publisher= Nasdaq, Inc.| access-date= March 21, 2017}}</ref>

In 2010, she was awarded the [[Ellis Island Medal of Honor]] recognition of her humanitarian efforts.<ref name="Ellis Island Medal">{{cite web| url= http://capitolwords.org/date/2010/06/08/E1036-3_a-tribute-to-the-2010-ellis-island-medal-of-honor-/| first= Dan| last= Burton | author-link= Dan Burton| title= A Tribute To The 2010 Ellis Island Medal Of Honor Recipients| website= capitolwords.org |date= June 8, 2010| publisher= Sunlight Foundation| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150704040728/http://capitolwords.org/date/2010/06/08/E1036-3_a-tribute-to-the-2010-ellis-island-medal-of-honor-/| archive-date= July 4, 2015| access-date= March 21, 2017}}</ref>

In 2015, the [[National Space Society]] awarded Ansari the [[Space Pioneer Awards|Space Pioneer Award]] for her "Service to the Space Community."<ref>{{cite web| publisher=National Space Society Blog |url=http://blog.nss.org/?p=4685|title=Anousheh Ansari Wins the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award for "Service to the Space Community" |date = 4 March 2015|access-date=March 5, 2015}}</ref>