Iran today claimed it has successfully flown a monkey on a suborbital rocket flight.
Iran today claimed it has successfully flown a monkey on a suborbital rocket flight.
The only sources for this story come from Iranian sources, so I remain unsure whether it actually happened.
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Iran today claimed it has successfully flown a monkey on a suborbital rocket flight.
The only sources for this story come from Iranian sources, so I remain unsure whether it actually happened.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I was excited about them shooting a monkey into space until I realized they weren’t talking about Ahmadinejad.
LOL ! ! We WISH ! !
I was going to comment that the rocket looks pretty small, much smaller than the Redstone that launched Shepard & Grissom on suborbital flights reaching just over 100 mi up. So I’m wondering whether a rocket that size could actually reach 75 mi altitude – ??? That acceleration looked pretty brutal – wonder how many G’s ?? Could a monkey survive that ?? But Steve, your comment beats mine hands down ! !
So basically they are all hoot’in and hooler’in about not doing as well as Space Ship One did.
They at least launched a human.
And they are still years behind reaching an orbital space craft. Like SpaceX and Dragon One.
They need to hire a private company.
Obviously the free research that the rest of the world has already done and the financial backing of a whole nation has got them up to about 1950’s technology.