Turtle, Space Rat, and Worm Astronauts?
Explorer 3 Researcher Rocket Sets to Space Carrying Animals
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 marked the launch of Iran's Kavoshgar-3 (Explorer-3, a 10 feet rocket) carrying not the animals from Noah's Arch, instead one rat, two turtles and what Iranian state television said looked like a lot of worms. Irony is-Explorer 3 is a researcher rocket.
Explorer 3 was faultlessly launched. A minute and a half later, its third segment was also jettisoned successfully in orbit to research data. While Iran sure is proud of Explorer 3, U.S. is temporarily relieved. To recall, speculations has roamed every corner of news the last few months, in fear that Iran's test launches could be nuclear. In the end, it's just false alarm.
With Obama setting a new path for NASA, and space-touring nearing its realization, Iran sends rat to orbit. To mock it even more, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says, as quoted in the Associated Press, "The scientific arena is where Iran could defeat the West's domination."
Tourists to low earth orbit challenged by rat is sardonic, but in a way, rats aren't really the case. Sending animals to space shuttles, explorations, and missions have proven vital to the present-day space advancements.
Animals in the past until now were being used to test how infinitesimal gravity should affect humans and their survivability if they were to take long term travel in space. (Full details here.)
November of 1957, the first dog Laika was sent to space inside the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2. Laika was followed by ten others until it was made possible for a human to capacitate spaceflight. After several attempts, life support was developed and Yuri Gagarin became the first human sent to space.
Presently, Iran kept most of the details to itself. But considering the sending of animals to space, and President Admadinehad's confidence on the project, it's safe for most to hypothesize Iran's vision to explore deeper into the dim-lighted regions of space.
It doesn't end there. In ten years time, Iran's envisage is to put a man into orbit. A repetition perhaps, (from rats to humans over the vast outerspace) is certainly something to look forward to.
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- In ten years time, Iran's envisage is to put a man into orbit.