Tehran TV is reporting today that the Iranian government has successfully launched a monkey into space. Details are still scarce, but according to the AFP, officials announced the achievement after receiving the spacecraft with "shipment" intact.
Today's launch comes two years after Iran successfully launched a ten-foot research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles, and several worms. Officials announced plans to put a monkey in space earlier this month, as part of its ongoing mission to send a human to space by 2020, and to have an astronaut on the moon by 2025. The country reportedly failed on its first attempt to launch a rhesus monkey in 2011, though state officials never gave an explanation.
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