So... they'll willingly blow themselves to Allah if they can take a Jew with them in the process.... but they won't risk losing a man for the sake of scientific exploration?
Why not send a Scuzlim into space with a Jew? Then if things go bad, it'd be like any old regular Scuzlamic suicide mission. If they live, then the clerics could have them both executed - one for being a Jew, and one for failing to properly sacrifice himself for Jihad.
There Scuzlim logic in there somewhere.
Save a monkey. Send a Muslim to space in an Iranian rocket.
(Edited for typo in title; IDP)