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Iran Plans To Put a Monkey Into Space

Posted by timothy on Friday June 17, 2011 @07:07PM 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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I didn't know that... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-17 19:14 · Score: 3, Funny

...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an astronaut!
1. Re:I didn't know that... by Stormwatch · 2011-06-17 19:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's such an offensive thing to say. I demand you apologize to the monkeys!
  
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  Circumcision is child abuse.
2. Re:I didn't know that... by martin-boundary · 2011-06-17 19:55 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Oh yes! Him and George Bush Jr trained together for the space missions back in '82.
...all us Europeans are wondering... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-17 19:34 · Score: 2, Funny

...how they kidnapped George W. Bush in the first place.
Simian munitions mount by AnotherScratchMonkey · 2011-06-17 20:14 · Score: 4, Funny

They don't mention the type of warhead the monkey will have in his arms.