Complex sentence: Anousheh Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space traveler, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station, she flew to the station in 2006 on the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft.
Split into simpler sentences: Anousheh Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space traveler, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. She flew to the station in 2006 on the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft.