TEHRAN: An Iranian newspaper is reporting that the country plans to send another monkey into space within a month.

A report in the daily Jomhuri Eslami quotes the deputy head of Iran’s space agency, Hamid Fazeli, as saying the planned launch is part of the country’s plans to send a human to space in 2018. Earlier this year, Iran claimed it launched a monkey out of the Earth’s atmosphere and successfully had it return.

Fazeli was quoted in Sunday’s article as saying animals with a similar weight as monkeys are under consideration as future space test subjects.