Ham received his formal training at Holloman Air Force Base and was named in honor of the Holloman Aeromedical Field ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...

When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...

As part of Project Mercury, NASA prepared to send a chimpanzee, Ham, into space to test the effects of space on a living creature. What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? (02:31 ...

In the late 1950s, chimpanzees were either bred in captivity or taken from the wild to be trained for space travel. Most famously, Ham was the first chimpanzee astronaut sent into space in 1961.

📅 Today in History: In 1961, NASA launched the Mercury-Redstone 2 spacecraft with a 3-year-old chimpanzee named Ham secured in a seat for the flight, which lasted over 16 minutes and traveled at a ...

Friday, Jan. 31, marks the anniversary of Ham the chimpanzee's space flight, which happened 64 years ago. Though not the first animal sent to space, Ham was the first hominid – any species including ...