TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA) Irans head of aeronautic systems of Space Agency has said Russian will train Iranian astronauts for space projects. Mohammad Ebrahimi told Mehr News that Iran planned to send man to space by 2025 and a group of expert physicians and astronomers would be chosen according to their tests results. He added that Irans Space ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced plans to launch another explorer rocket into space in the near future. "A one-ton explorer will be sent to orbit at an altitude of 150 to 200 kilometers from the earth this year," Head of Irans Aerospace Research Institute Mohammad Ebrahimi, who also supervises Iran's project for sending man into space, said in an ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran says it is considering sending a Persian cat into space as the next animal astronaut after claims of launching a monkey earlier this year. The effort is part of Iranian ambitions to send a human into space by 2018, but questions have been raised about the reported successes of Iran's animal missions. Monday's report by ...

TEHRAN,Iran (AP) -- An Iranian semi-official news agency says the country plans to send its first astronauts into space by 2018. Tuesday's report by Mehr quotes Mohammad Ebrahimi, a senior official in Iran's space agency, as saying the flight of two trained Iranian astronauts has been slated for between 2016 and 2018. Ebrahimi says Iran will ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A senior Iranian space official says one of two official photos of its famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but that the primate really did fly up into orbit and return safely. Mohammad Ebrahimi also told the The Associated Press the monkey's name: Pishgam, or Pioneer in Farsi. The Iranian media originally said ...