Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @02:03AM from the hard-thing-to-get-right dept.

Medevilae writes with a recent report from PopSci's dedicated 'space monkey' news feed that "When Iran indefinitely suspended its plans to launch a monkey into space earlier this month, it was actually because they had already tried and failed. Iranian Deputy Science Minister Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri told state media that the Kavoshgar-5 rocket carrying a capsule with a live monkey launched during Shahrivar, which is the Iranian month spanning August 23 to September 22, but the launch was not publicized because it did not accomplish all of its mission objectives. Assuming one of the objectives was to safely carry the monkey to space and back, things don't sound good for the monkey."

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Re:Congratulations for trying! by durrr · 2011-10-18 02:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

All that have no ballistic nuclear missile cravings.

Orbital rockets can easily be repurposed to ICBMs
Home brewed nuclear reactors are a good step on the way to manufacturing nukes.
Having a dictatorship ruled by religious fundamentalists of the worst kind is, when combined with the above, a good starting condition for world war 3 or at the very least an actual nuclear war.

Not to be paranoid or anything, but it's pretty damn obvious that they want some serious military tools as a byproduct of their Glorious National Proudness Programs.