Media Reports: Iran Fails in Attempt to Send Monkey into Space
The website of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph and the French news agency AFP are reporting that Iran’s deputy science minister acknowledged today that the country failed in an attempt to launch a monkey into space last month.
The story in The Telegraph quotes Iran’s deputy science minister Mohammed Mehdinejad-Nouri as saying “The Kavoshgar-5 rocket carrying a capsule with a live animal (a monkey) was launched during Shahrivar…However, the launch was not publicised as all of its anticipated objectives were not accomplished…” The newspaper said that Shahrivar is an Iranian month spanning August 23 – September 22. AFP carries the same story.
Iran launched its first satellite into orbit in February 2009; it reentered in April 2009. At the time, an Iranian official said the country planned to launch a person into space “before 2021.”
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