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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. Sounds good by rsilvergun · · Score: 1, Troll

    But do they really think they can get a member of the US congress to cooperate with their space progra...

    Oh, wait, you meant the OTHER kind of monkey. Oh, right. Go on then.

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