Leading aviation medicine specialists said it was “highly unlikely that Iran could learn anything scientifically important by sending worms, turtles and a mouse into space via a rocket. The first animal to go to space was a dog who flew in the Russian space vehicle Sputnik 2 way back in 1957. They noted that the “poor creatures” could easily be dead by the time they reached space and that it was extremely unlikely that the rocket – with the animals inside – could be recovered and examined. “It’s a one-way ticket,” said one expert.
