Tasnim Irans joint projects with other countries in the space field will yield results in the near future, Head of Irans National Space Center Manouchehr Manteqi said.
Iran has begun international cooperation in space projects, Manteqi said on Sunday, adding that there was no such cooperation in the past.
Today, joint projects and cooperation ...
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 ...
(Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he was ready to be the first human sent into orbit by Iran's fledgling space program, Iranian media reported.
Irandeclared last week that it had successfully launched a monkey into space and retrieved it alive, which officials hailed as a major step towards their goal of sending humans into ...