TEHRAN (ISNA) - Iran is hopeful it will send man to space within a ten-year
program.
Iran is studying a project on traveling people to the space and some
universities have examined the issue scientifically, the Head of Iran's Space
Agency (ISA) Reza Taghipour told ISNA.
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Reza Taghipour |
The venture involves different aspects including life in space and the changes
in human body due to spacecraft's high speed, he said.
Taghipour then expressed hope Iran could pave the way for dispatching men to
space during next ten years.
Elsewhere, he added some Iranian universities are making remote sensing
satellites.
Some prestigious universities in Iran including Amirkabir, Elmosanat and
Sanatisharif are building remote sensing satellites which can be employed in
meteorology, collection of data about the earth surface, forest monitoring and
management of natural resources, Taghipour said.
He added the students projects are expected to bear fruit by next three years.
He also continued Iran will definitely launch satellite into orbit by 2011, but
the type of the satellite has not been specified yet.
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