Dr. Mohammad Ebrahimi told Mehr News that the spacecraft weighing 300 to 500Kg. was in line with Iran’s project to send man to space. “The first step in sending man to space is to send spaceship to earth’s orbit, which has been projected for mid-term plan,” he added. “For the present year (2014), we have in agenda design of a conceptual model of spacecraft to carry the simplest form of life such as a small monkey or a tiny rat, to earth’s orbit,” he said.
