Iran launches animalnauts

Iran's Explorer 3 carried animals into space...and back,

Iran launched a spacecraft today that put a rat, two turtles and some worms into space. Piecing together coverage from several sources, it seems that the craft went into sub-orbital space and then returned to earth. The animalnauts, we are told, are fine.

Of course, coverage of any Iranian space mission is understandably overshadowed by the potential threat of a nuclear Iran using missiles as weapons. But today, nobody was harmed—apparently not even the worms.

This is Iran’s third satellite launch. This one was called Kavoshgar 3. Kavoshgar means “explorer.”