Iran Plans to Launch "Bio-Capsule" Within Two Years; Person by 2021
The head of Iran’s Aerospace Center says that Iran plans to launch a bio-capsule carrying “a living creature” within the next two years, according to Iran’s Fars news agency. Mohsen Bahrami reportedly made the announcement on October 6 as part of a ceremony celebrating Space Week. Iran conducted its first successul space launch in February of this year and shortly thereafter announced plans to launch “a successful Iranian manned spacefflight … before 2021.”
The February 2, 2009 launch placed a small (about 25 kilogram) communications satellite, Omid (Hope), into low Earth orbit. It reentered on April 25, 2009.
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