On June 14, 1949, a rhesus monkey named Albert II was launched into space aboard a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico.

Iranian space officials announced Monday (Jan. 28) that they have successfully launched a live monkey into space, inching closer to the Islamic republic's goal of a manned mission, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iran has successfully launched a monkey into space for the second time on Dec. 14 and returned it safely to Earth after a 15-minute rocket ride, according to Iranian officials. Iran's space monkey ...

Media outlets in Tehran today are reporting that the Iranian government has successfully launched a monkey into space. According to the AFP, the monkey was launched inside a capsule to an altitude ...

Sky News is reporting that Iran just took a major step towards its goal of achieving manned space flight—by firing a monkey into space. Details are currently scant, but Sky News believes that ...

Iranian space officials announced they will make another attempt to launch a live monkey into space within the next month, according to news reports. "Testing phase of these living capsules has ...

"The launch of Pajohesh is another long step getting the Islamic Republic of Iran closer to sending a man into space," the official IRNA news agency said. Fargam is a male monkey of rhesus macaque ...

carrying monkey to space will be launched into space during March-August 2012,” the propaganda machine reports. IRNA quotes Fazeli as saying, “Kavoshgar-5 will carry a biological capsule ...