IFP - While Iran has already sent two monkeys to space and successfully returned them to the Earth, a senior Iranian official says the country plans to send a man into space within the next eight years. Iran sent two monkeys into the space back in 2013. The first monkey (Aftab or Sun) was sent in January to an altitude of about 120km ...

[caption id="attachment_151614" align="alignright" width="175"] Iran's mock-up of manned spacecraft[/caption] TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian researchers are designing a manned spacecraft to return astronomer from 150-200 kilometers away the earth. Iran also unveiled an E1 manned spacecraft mock-up in Space Exploration Systems Research Center. The ...

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TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) Irans head of aeronautic systems of Space Agency has said the project for sending man to space possible, but too expensive. Mehr News quoted Dr. Mohammad Ebrahimi speaking in the special panel for astronaut launch to space. The project was allocated $ 50m in government budget, which had not realized due to hard-hit currency ...