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Iran plans to send monkey into space in near future

Iran Materials 2 August 2012 02:24 (UTC +04:00)
Iran Space Agency (ISA) director Hamid Fazeli announced on Wednesday that ISA plans to send a live monkey into space aboard a rocket after the fasting month of Ramadan which ends on August 18.
Iran plans to send monkey into space in near future

Iran Space Agency (ISA) director Hamid Fazeli announced on Wednesday that ISA plans to send a live monkey into space aboard a rocket after the fasting month of Ramadan which ends on August 18, MNA reported.

The rocket, called Kavoshgar-5 (explorer-5), contains a biological capsule in which a rhesus monkey will be placed, Tehran Times reported.

Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on June 2 that Iran is finishing construction of a new space center that will allow it to soon launch more domestically made satellites into orbit.


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