If Iran has indeed launched a monkey to space, the nation is following a path similar to that taken by the United States in the early days of its space program. Iran announced today (Jan. 28) that ...

Iran claimed today that it had successfully sent a second monkey into space and brought it back to Earth safely. In a statement on his official English-language site, President Hassan Rouhani said ...

Before Yuri Gargarin jetted into space and Neil Armstrong walked on the dusty surface of the moon, animals like dogs, monkeys and chimps became the world's first astronauts. As the Earth ...

Soon after Iranian officials announced they'd sent a monkey to space, close observers started wondering if the Iranians had been, as the saying goes, just monkeying around. Photos published by the ...

“Sending (the monkey into space) and retrieving it was the first step for sending humans into space,” Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, according to the semi-official Fars News Agenc ...

Iran's report that it sent a gray-tufted monkey into space and returned safely has launched concerns in the West that the mission advances Iran's rocket expertise that could be used for long-range ...

The U.S. Air Force was the first to launch primates into space. Instead of chimps, smaller monkeys were their preferred choice. But those early missions didn’t go well — for either human or ...

The mission reportedly involved sending a rhesus monkey into space on a Kavoshgar-5 rocket, and was supposedly "not publicized" because -- as Iran Deputy Science Minister Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri ...

Their safe return occurred two years before any humans flew into space, and it made them huge celebrities. The monkeys appeared on the cover of Life magazine, and at a press conference ...

A bunch of highly trained scientists in China are, right hand to God, sending macaque monkeys and mice into space so they can study how they reproduce in space-like conditions. “Some studies ...

Monkey Able was also conditioned to being strapped into a capsule ... Inside the nose cone, Monkey Able was dressed in a space suit and strapped to a carefully shaped contour couch of fiber ...