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Iran Plans To Put a Monkey Into Space

Posted by timothy on from the why-can't-they-put-them-all? dept.

arisvega writes "Iran plans to send a live monkey into space in the summer, the country's top space official said after the launch of the Rassad-1 satellite, state television reported on its website on Thursday. 'The Kavoshgar-5 rocket will be launched during the month of Mordad (July 23 to August 23) with a 285-kilogramme capsule carrying a monkey to an altitude of 120 kilometres (74 miles),' said Hamid Fazeli, head of Iran's Space Organisation. No mentioning on retrieving the monkey, though."

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  1. Re:This is how you signal ICBM capability by Gordonjcp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you had Israel as your near neighbours, wouldn't you want decent missiles too? Remember, this is the country that is herding Palestinians into ghettos and slaughtering them. The war criminal Ariel Sharon used to talk about a "final solution" for the Palestinian problem - chilling stuff, I'm sure you'll agree!

    Oh, and look at the latest piece of crazyness from the Israeli terrorist wackos:

    Jerusalem rabbis 'condemn dog to death by stoning'

    So the mad rabbis are ordering children to stone a stray dog to death?