According to a report on state TV, the rocket dubbed Pishgam, or Pioneer in Farsi, reached a height of 120 kilometres. The report gave no other details on the timing or location of the launch, but said the monkey safely returned to earth.
However, in our far greater than the mainstream news media efforts to bring you the whole story, we have a picture of that monkey taken just before his flight….
.....as you can see, the small-balled Persian is a particularly ugly little monkey!
