Posted on 06/16/2011 10:17:55 AM PDT by lbryce
Iranian Space Agency plans to launch rocket this summer with monkey on board; plans to send man to space in near future.
The head of the Iranian Space Agency, Hamid Fazeli, announced publicly on Thursday that the Islamic Republic plans to launch a rocket into space with a monkey on board this summer, according to an AFP report.
The approximate date given is the Persian month of Mordad, which this year falls between July 23 and Augst 23.
The rocket to be used is the Iranian Kavoshgar-5. The Kavoshgar-3 rocket, launched in 2010, carried a rat, turtles, and worms. The Kavoshgar-4 rocket, launched on March 15, 2011, was desgined to carry a monkey but the capsule was left empty.
The rocket will be equipped with a 285-kilogram capsule and will carry the monkey to an altitude of 120 kilometers (74 miles).
Western powers fear that Iran's space program, which first got off the ground in 2009 when it launched its first satellite, has military ambitions as the technology can be used for designing and launching ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled the capsulde designed to carry the monkey into space in February. The Iranian Space Agency hopes to send a man into space by 2020.
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Hopefully the monkey will be flinging some poo at the Iranians ! I do like the pic of Aminejihad !
That image is amazing!
On a humanitarian note, a system will be built in to stone the monkey to death so it will not suffer prolonged dying in space.
THis story write its own joke
Remind of Dieter and monkey from SNL Skit with Mike Myers LOL!
I’manutjob looks more like a monkey than most monkeys I’ve seen.
Another thought, I will gladly pay the air fair for an American who voted for Obama, so they (the Obama voter) can go to Iran and volunteer for the mission.
How about the first WEINER in space?
Well, will they?
As for reaching our country, all they have to do is put a missel on a ship and bring to our coast line. Almost no defense in this case. They know this and it’s a good reason to stop them.
Yeah, really. Welcome to 50 years ago! Maybe if you hadn’t spent all this time stoning women this would have happened earlier.
At this point, I think that even the Dems would pay Weiners Air Fair to volunteer for the mission.
Monkey??? ...isn’t that somehow “racial”?
No bananas for maymoonnejad
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