News From Space!

February 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) — State television reports that Iran has successfully launched its first space rocket. Fars news agency quotes the deputy head of Iran’s aerospace research centre, Ali Akbar Golrou, as saying the rocket reached an altitude of 150 kilometres, but did not stay in orbit.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2007/space-070225-rferl01.htm

Soviet Gray Areas of History Explored and Exposed: US intelligence analysts recount that the Russians actively prepared to send cosmonauts on lunar trips ahead of Apollos 8 and 11, and a KGB “special action” attempted to stop Apollo 8 from launching, according to a new article posted to the website Globalsecurity.org.  

 http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/report/2007/deep-politics.htm