Iran "failed" to launch monkey into space

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/12/501364/main20119634.shtml

When Iran announced earlier this year that it was planning on shooting a monkey into space with one of its Kavoshgar-5 rockets, Western officials were worried that the Islamic Republic was really just testing its own ability to create long-range ballistic missiles.
Fortunately for those same Western officials, Iran "failed" recently to send a rhesus monkey into Earth's orbit, according to Agence France Presse.
"The launch was not publicized as all of its anticipated objectives were not accomplished," Deputy Science Minister Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
On October 3, Iran indefinitely postponed plans to send a live monkey into space, without giving any reasons, AFP reports. Iran has already sent small animals into space -- a rat, turtles and worms -- aboard a capsule carried by its Kavoshgar-3 rocket in 2010.
The recent failed project was supposed to launch a capsule with life support using the Kavoshgar-5 rocket to an altitude of 75 miles for a 20-minute sub-orbital flight, AFP reports.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in 2010 that his country plans on putting a man into space by 2017, Al Arabiya reports.
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Monkey boy Ahmadinejad must have backed out at the last minute. :D
 
Postponed, not failed.
Well done though, even with sanctions they capable of nuclear stations and space exploration...
 
alf101 said:
Yep, it is well done.
They're only about 60 years behind the west in space exploration now, and about 500 years behind as far as human rights goes.
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And about 5 million years behind when it comes to justifying occupation and war:P
 
alf101 said:
Nah, they've done their share of that in the past.
They're just not very good at it anymore.
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And the States are? Lol, the whole WMD's, Bin Laden in the sea, Iranian, Mexican, druglord terrorist stories could have done with some work. Facepalm*
 
Reminds me of this from 2009:

North Korean Missile Launch Was a Failure, Experts Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/world/asia/06korea.html?pagewanted=all

North Korea failed in its highly vaunted effort to fire a satellite into orbit, military and private experts said Sunday after reviewing detailed tracking data that showed the missile and payload fell into the sea. Some said the failure undercut the North Korean campaign to come across as a fearsome adversary able to hurl deadly warheads halfway around the globe.
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Birds of a feather, fail together :)
 
//
Lemmings:
Target space to do ????? :
You got: 10 landmines, 4 RPG's , 22 goats, 1 Kavoshgar rocket, 67 litres of fuel.

If succesfull you get : 3 goats + medal
If unsuccesfull and live you get : beheaded
If unsuccefull and die you get : 69 virgins. //

Any volunteers ??
 
Ah, so this story about Malema being in hospital was nothing but a cover up!
 
alf101 said:
Yep, it is well done.
They're only about 60 years behind the west in space exploration now, and about 500 years behind as far as human rights goes.
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Yea can you imagine nasa had all sorts of sanctions and BS to deal with, can you imagine anytime they launched a rocket they were accused of testing ballistic missiles. Might make their job just that little bit harder.

Considering how the world cripples iran, they have managed to try put a monkey(sadly it wasn't malema or mugabe) in space and amazingly now have a nuclear power station.
 
alf101 said:
The US had to invent the technology, and it wasn't known if it was possible or not.
Kinda like breaking the sound barrier.

Iran have things a lot easier.
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The US invented the technology? Ballistic? I would check your facts if you think they invented ballistic missiles.
 
alf101 said:
Yep, it is well done.
They're only about 60 years behind the west in space exploration now, and about 500 years behind as far as human rights goes.
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What about animal rights? I guess the US hasn't accepted animal rights also.
 
Alf it's about claiming this

"The US had to invent the technology, and it wasn't known if it was possible or not.
Kinda like breaking the sound barrier."

They never invented the technology. One wonders where the germans would be if hitler never fell, some of the most amazing inventions came from the germans and not the americans.

If germany had not fallen technology today may be much further than it is.
 
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alf101 said:
What's the thread about killa?

Did the US buy their space ships from China?
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The Saturn rockets used for the Apollo missions were nothing more than glorified German V2s.

Nowadays they just use Russian rocket engines, simply more efficient (which when every kilogram counts is better). The Americans only really had Goddard, the rest were ex-German or ex-Russian scientists. Even then they didn't really do much in terms of rocket engine design.
 
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killadoob said:
So you are saying i am wrong? Who invented the ballistic missile then?

History channel is very good you should watch it sometime.

Try www.google.com as well if you want to show me i am wrong provide the links alf.
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Try google Robert Goddard


UnUnOctium said:
The Saturn rockets used for the Apollo missions were nothing more than glorified German V2s.
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Yeah it was so simple . :rolleyes:
 
UnUnOctium said:
The Saturn rockets used for the Apollo missions were nothing more than glorified German V2s.

Nowadays they just use Russian rocket engines, simply more efficient (which when every kilogram counts is better). The Americans only really had Goddard, the rest were ex-German or ex-Russian scientists. Even then they didn't really do much in terms of rocket engine design.
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Lets give Isaac Newton some credit here please.
None of this would've happened without him.

And the guy who invented fire, and that guy who made the wheel.
They were probably from Iran.
 
alf101 said:
Lets give Isaac Newton some credit here please.
None of this would've happened without him.

And the guy who invented fire, and that guy who made the wheel.
They were probably from Iran.
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Just as long as it's not the U.S being given credit
 
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