Wasn't the first American astronaut Alan Shepard???
5 000mph are how many kilometers ::
1 mile is 1,853 or 1,609 kilometers?1 case: 5 000 mph ~ 9265 km/h ::2 case: 5 000 mph ~ 8045 km/h :
Ahmadinejad said the Persian nation will soon "launch a rocket, which has 16 engines and will take a satellite some 430 miles" into space.
From Xinhua: Iran to launch research rocket into space.
...Sadly for Iran, the first attempt to launch the satellite failed in 2005.
Mesbah 1 was scheduled to be launched in late 2005 onboard a Kosmos-3M launch vehicle from the Pletsesk Cosmodrome, which did not happen. Currently the status of the satellite is unknown, but a planned launch on the Iranian Safir launch vehicle has been reported.
I think they mean that the satellite didn't left the ground because it was dropped from the launch which occurred in 2005. No launch failure, just failure to embark