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Further Reading

Iran ’s Piloted Program

© By Charles P. Vick (All Rights Reserved)

08-25-2008- -9-1-2010

Disclaimer The opinions and evaluations stated here in are only the authors and cannot be construed to reflect those of any Government agency, company, institute or association. It is based on public information, circumstantial evidence, informed speculation, declassified U.S. intelligence community documents, official Iranian and North Korean government documents and histories, oral histories, interviews and reverse engineering analysis. As with all data regarding the Iranian and North Korean strategic space and ballistic missile programs, this analysis is subject to revision--and represents a work in progress. It reflects the total open source analysis process and previous studies using the same information analysis process.

Iran's Piloted Program Planning

More recently Iran revealed that it plans to send its first Astronaut into space with in ten years (2021?)or more accurately during the Iranian year of 1403 which is between March 2024-March 2025, as a outlook plan that is tentively being formulated according to Reza Taghipour head of the Iranian Aerospace organization stated on Iranian State television. August 21, 2008. That is with in the next six months to one year this proposal will be firmed up with exact dates of the requirements for the mission of the three State three year plans down the road.

Iran has now decided as of July 25, 2010 ostensible due to external pressures from the West to accelerate its manned space program rescheduling it for the Iranian year of 1398 which is March 2019-March 2020. The below illustration would seem to indicate the planned launch vehicle development process leading to a crewed spacecraft program for Iran.

Accelerated Human Crew Launch Schedule

Iran plans a launch of an astronaut human crew in 2017 that is 7 years from 2010. This is part of an originally scheduled 12 year plan leading to Iranian manned flight originally scheduled for 2021. The plan authorized by the Iranian government covering several three year plans has in fact been accelerated forward as of August 4, 2010 . The basis of its new missile booster developments lead by its aerospace organization recently revised for human crewed launch to 2019 but now there is talk for 2017 as the earliest possible year of the flight. Iran had initially decided as of July 25, 2010 ostensible due to external pressures from the West to accelerate its manned space program rescheduling it for the Iranian year of 1398 which is March 2019-March 2020. The below illustration would seem to indicate the planned launch vehicle development process leading to a crewed spacecraft program for Iran .