TEHRAN (WNB) - On Saturday afternoon, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani announced his country's space program had successfully orbited another monkey in space, their second this year.
Reporters were shown a photo (below) of the tiny astronaut piloting the "Falling Star Sky Camel IV" rocket into space. The mission, dubbed "Burning Monkey II" was the first to run on liquid fuel, he said.
Rouhani said the monkey is "resting comfortably" after its journey, but residents in New Zealand reported finding pieces of an Iranian space capsule and "something that looked like a burnt chicken" outside of Queenstown Saturday morning.