On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a dog named Laika into space. She rode aboard the Sputnik 2 with only one meal and a seven-day oxygen supply. She made history as the first living ...
Animals were every bit as heroic as the first human astronauts By Jeffrey ... the four year old Cameroonian chimpanzee who preceded them into space, on January 31, 1961. Ham, after all, was ...
A sad tale - discover what happened to ‘Ham’ who was the first chimpanzee launched into space and was not expected to survive ...