Iran launches rocket carrying animals
Iran announced on Wednesday it launched a menagerie of animals - including a mouse, two turtles and worms - into space on a research rocket, a feat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said showed Iran could defeat the West in the battle of technology.
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Ahmadinejad also unveiled the model of a light booster rocket that is being built and three new, Iranian-built satellites, touted as the latest achievements in the country's ambitious space programme.
The Iranian space program has worried Western powers, which fear the same technology used to launch satellites and research capsules could also be used to build long-range intercontinental missiles and deliver warheads.
Text: AP
Image: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens to Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, as he looks at engine of a domestically-built satellite booster rocket, in Tehran, on February 3, 2010. (Image copyright AP)
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