The American / English hypocrisy continues. Just like the Shah time, they have supported Iran to be another POLICE in the area.. At the same time they weep and scream falsely about the threat it created..
They manged to destroy Iraq, and its space program too, to support Iran.. S1000+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG71jdlaPX8 Iraq Space Rocket Al-Abid - 1989 biomedical23 (4 months ago) wrote: This is the first Arab trials for launching space rocket to an geodestic orbits, attempt in 5 December 1989, I was 10 years old when I saw this great achievement. God bless Iraq I added this comment on the Video: Thank you very much for this information. Now it is forgotten sadly. BTW this was ahead of Japan and Israel and India ( to reach space) (although info below says otherwise) . I wish we can obtain the photos of the control room for that news. Sumerian100 ============================== Spaceports Around the World: Iraq's Al-Anbar Space Research Center ( Destroyed by Americans 2003 S1000+) Iraq is a spacefaring nation. On December 5, 1989, the Middle eastern nation became the tenth to launch an artificial moon to orbit above Earth. The satellite was the 48-ton, third stage of a three-stage rocket in a flight from Al-Anbar Space Research Center 50 miles west of Baghdad to a six-orbit spaceflight. Six Revs. A U.S. nuclear-attack-warning satellite spotted fiery exhaust from the rocket as it blasted up and away from Iraq. While the rocket did not leave a separate satellite in orbit, it's third stage swept around the Earth for six revolutions before falling out of orbit. North American Aerospace Defense Command tracked the third stage around the globe. The launch made Iraq the tenth nation with a rocket powerful enough for space launches. It was the first time Iraq had exposed its space research. The previous nine to launch satellites to orbit had been, in order, the USSR, the United States, France, Japan, China, Great Britain, the combined nations of Europe, India and Israel. Scout-like. Iraq's 75-ft., three-stage rocket probably was similar to a U.S. Scout rocket used to send small satellites to low orbits. Military missiles. Iraq's space booster may have been a modified version of Argentina's Condor ballistic missile. Such a missile could carry a nuclear warhead 1,240 miles. Iraq also had a 600-mi. missile built around the USSR's Scud. Scuds were launched by Iraq against Iran during their eight-year war in the 1980's. Iraq again launched Scuds, against Israel and Saudi Arabia, in the first Persian Gulf War in 1991. Iraq launched a few ballistic missiles against Kuwait and the opposing Coalition Forces in the second Persian Gulf War in 2003. Al-Anbar Space Research Center and other Iraqi launch sites were damaged in the 1991 war, bringing to a halt Iraq's ability to continue in the Middle East space race with Israel. http://www.spacetoday.org/Rockets/Spaceports/Iraq.html ================= News Alert 6:14 AM EDT Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Iran Says It Tests Missile, Israel Within Range ( And Saudia Too ... S1000+) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran test-fired a new advanced missile Wednesday with a range of about 1,200 miles, far enough to strike Israel and southeastern Europe. For more information, visit washingtonpost.com ======= S1000+ ======= --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
