L'Iran envoie souris, vers, et tortues dans l'espace

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Iran sends mouse, worms, turtles into space


Iran sends mouse, worms, turtles into space
President: ‘Scientific arena is where we could defeat (West’s) domination’



updated 2:31 p.m. ET, Wed., Feb. 3, 2010

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran announced Wednesday it has successfully launched a 10-foot-long research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into space — a feat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said showed Iran could defeat the West in the battle of technology.

The launch of the Kavoshgar-3, which means Explorer-3 in Farsi, was announced by Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as part of Iran's ambitious space program.

It comes a year after Iran sent its first domestically made telecommunications satellite into orbit.

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'Very big event'
Ahmadinejad praised the latest launch and said greater events would come in the future.

"The scientific arena is where we could defeat the (West's) domination," Ahmadinejad said in remarks broadcast live on state TV.

He said the launch is a "very big event. This is the first presence of animals in space launched by Iran. It's the start of bigger achievements" to come.

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