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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has prepared
plans to send more living creatures
into the space on the back of its
home-made rockets, a senior Iranian
cultural official announced on
Tuesday.
"The aerospace plan is a single document
for the country based on which we are
seeking to send living creatures into the
space," Secretary of the Supreme Council
of Cultural Revolution Mokhber Dezfouli
said in Tehran on Tuesday.
He expressed the hope that sending
living creatures by Iran will be a prelude
to sending human beings into the space.
In relevant remarks in March 2012,
Caretaker of Iranian Space Agency Hamid
Fazeli announced that the country plans
to send a monkey into the space on the
back of Kavoshgar (Explorer) 5 rocket in
the near future.
He said that the Iranian shuttle,
Kavoshgar-5 carrying monkey to space will
be launched into space during March-
August 2012.
"Kavoshgar-5 will carry a biological
capsule containing a monkey into space.
This is actually a prelude to preparing Iran
for sending a human astronaut into space
before 2021," Fazeli said at the time.
In mid-March 2011, Iran's space
organization announced the launch of the
Kavoshgar-4 rocket carrying a test capsule
designed to house the monkey.
The capsule had been unveiled in
February 2011 by President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, along with four new
prototypes of home-built satellites.
At the time, Fazeli called the launch of a
large animal into space as the first step
towards sending a man into space, which
Tehran says is scheduled for 2020.
Iran has already sent small animals into
space - a rat, turtles and worms - aboard a
capsule carried by its Kavoshgar-3 rocket
in 2010.
The Islamic republic, which first put a
satellite into orbit in 2009, has outlined
an ambitious space program and has, thus
far, made giant progress in the field
despite western sanctions and pressures
against its advancement.
Fars News Agency :: Official: Iran to Send More Living Creatures into Space
plans to send more living creatures
into the space on the back of its
home-made rockets, a senior Iranian
cultural official announced on
Tuesday.
"The aerospace plan is a single document
for the country based on which we are
seeking to send living creatures into the
space," Secretary of the Supreme Council
of Cultural Revolution Mokhber Dezfouli
said in Tehran on Tuesday.
He expressed the hope that sending
living creatures by Iran will be a prelude
to sending human beings into the space.
In relevant remarks in March 2012,
Caretaker of Iranian Space Agency Hamid
Fazeli announced that the country plans
to send a monkey into the space on the
back of Kavoshgar (Explorer) 5 rocket in
the near future.
He said that the Iranian shuttle,
Kavoshgar-5 carrying monkey to space will
be launched into space during March-
August 2012.
"Kavoshgar-5 will carry a biological
capsule containing a monkey into space.
This is actually a prelude to preparing Iran
for sending a human astronaut into space
before 2021," Fazeli said at the time.
In mid-March 2011, Iran's space
organization announced the launch of the
Kavoshgar-4 rocket carrying a test capsule
designed to house the monkey.
The capsule had been unveiled in
February 2011 by President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, along with four new
prototypes of home-built satellites.
At the time, Fazeli called the launch of a
large animal into space as the first step
towards sending a man into space, which
Tehran says is scheduled for 2020.
Iran has already sent small animals into
space - a rat, turtles and worms - aboard a
capsule carried by its Kavoshgar-3 rocket
in 2010.
The Islamic republic, which first put a
satellite into orbit in 2009, has outlined
an ambitious space program and has, thus
far, made giant progress in the field
despite western sanctions and pressures
against its advancement.
Fars News Agency :: Official: Iran to Send More Living Creatures into Space
