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OTD In Space – January 31: Ham The Chimpanzee Takes Flight
On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...
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The 5 Biggest Engines In The World Are Absolutely Colossal
It generates four times more thrust than an F-16 jet and 12,000 pounds more than the Mercury-Redstone rocket. The Rocketdyne F-1 is 18 feet long, 12 feet in diameter, and capable of producing 1.5 ...
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60 years since 1st American in space: Tourists lining up
The 37-year-old Mercury astronaut and Navy test pilot cut a slick sci-fi figure in his silver spacesuit as he stood in the predawn darkness at Cape Canaveral, looking up at his Redstone rocket.
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How Ham, the Astrochimp, paved the way for human spaceflight
Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...