Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he's ready to take the risk of being the first Iranian astronaut sent into space as part of Iran's goal of a human space flight, notes Popular Science.
“I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space by Iranian scientists,” Ahmadinejad told a group of those scientists in Tehran. The state-run Mehr news agency reported. “Sending living things into space is the result of Iranian efforts and the dedication of thousands of Iranian scientists,” speaking at an exhibition of Iran's space achievements in Tehran Monday, February 4, 2013.
The Iranian space agency reportedly launched and returned a monkey on a parabolic flight to space in January 2013. However, news reports of the event are now in dispute with pictures of two different primates before and after surfacing in international media. The alleged space flight raises the possibility that the space effort did not occur as Iranian media reported.
The Iranian space agency reportedly launched and returned a monkey on a parabolic flight to space in January 2013. However, news reports of the event are now in dispute with pictures of two different primates before and after surfacing in international media. The alleged space flight raises the possibility that the space effort did not occur as Iranian media reported.
Even if Ahmadinejad were to be launched into space, the question remains would he be the first Iranian?
Ahmadinejad, apparently does not acknowledge Iranian-born (Virginia educated) Anousheh Ansari was the first Iranian to orbit the Earth and stay aboard the International Space Station in 2006. Her journey became an inspiration to women in male-dominated Iran. Ansari also served to advance commercial spaceflight with the Ansari X-Prize won in 2004 by SpaceShipOne.
Ansari did not monkey-around.
Ansari did not monkey-around.
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Yes, perhaps the Iranian people would do well to launch him into space. The monkey wasn't lucky (since photos of two obviously different monkeys appeared for the "before" and "after" photos). Let's try Ahmadinejad's luck.
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