The Lebanese space program was not initially an official government-sponsored effort. Rather, it revolved around the Lebanese Rocket Society which emerged from the Haigazian College …

2013年7月25日 · The organization, which briefly catapulted Lebanon into the global space race, was founded in 1961. It was terminated just six years later, in 1967, due to military pressure …

2016年10月17日 · Aside from a few half-hearted Egyptian efforts in the late 1950s, Lebanon was the first Arab state to reach for the stars.

2020年10月23日 · Manoug Manougian’s first attempt to conquer space almost ended in failure. It was 1961, and on a hill in Ain Saade, a north-eastern suburb of Beirut, the 24-year-old physicist …

Space-related activities started in the country in the 1960's with the installation of a terrestrial station for telephone communication through satellite.

2014年4月1日 · Created in 1960 as a science club at Haigazian University in Beirut, the Lebanese Rocket Society was the first attempt at a national space program. It had its heyday with the …

Manougian's passion for space began as a boy in the 1940s growing up in Jericho in the West Bank. Inspired by Jules Verne novels, he would climb the nearby Mount of Temptation and gaze …

In the early 1960s, the Lebanese Rocket Society developed rockets to explore space and for other peaceful purposes, but its projects quickly attracted the attention of governments seeking …

2016年10月30日 · According to Smithsonian magazine, the short-lived Lebanese space program of the ’60s got unbelievably far along, and it’s all thanks to one man: Manoug Manougian.

2013年7月17日 · This “quiet contemplation” developed into the only thriving space program ever established in the Middle East. Then it disappeared entirely from collective memory.