{"id":43694,"date":"2010-08-06T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/06\/first-iranian-astronaut-to-be-sent-into-space-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T03:44:00","slug":"first-iranian-astronaut-to-be-sent-into-space-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/06\/first-iranian-astronaut-to-be-sent-into-space-in-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"First Iranian Astronaut to be Sent into Space in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Verdana\">Iran will launch its first astronaut into space in 2017, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press conference Thursday, reports Azerbaijan&#8217;s News.Az, citing the Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, according to Turkey&#8217;s Hurriyet Daily News &amp; Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Verdana\">Speaking in the western city of Hamedan, Ahmadinejad said that Iran would send its first astronaut into space in 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Verdana\">He told local media that Iran&#8217;s presence in space would indicate the country&#8217;s dominance in the field of space science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Verdana\">He said then that the decision had been taken in response to the UN Security Council&#8217;s latest sanctions on Iran over its uranium enrichment activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Verdana\">Last February, Iran launched its first home-built satellite, named Omid (Hope), into orbit to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. Earlier this year, Tehran sent the first bio-capsule of living creatures into space, using its home-made Kavoshgar-3 (Explorer-3) carrier, reports RTT News.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told local media that Iran&#8217;s presence in space would indicate the country&#8217;s dominance in the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[13629,10297,11601,13628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}