Iran ’s Piloted Program
© By Charles P. Vick (All Rights Reserved)
08-25-2008
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 sp[ace with in ten years (2021) 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 with with exact dates of the requirements for the mission ot three State three year plans down the road.

