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The Story of How Ham the Astrochimp Went to Space
On January 31, 1961, Number 65 was strapped into a pressurized capsule inside the Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The flight plan was for the rocket to reach an altitude of ...
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Discover What Happened to ‘Ham’ – The First Chimpanzee Launched Into Space
On January 31, 1961, Ham was secured in a specially designed capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket at Cape Canaveral, ...
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Science: The Nearest Thing
The booster on the pad at Cape Canaveral was a Redstone, a militarily obsolete but reliable Army rocket. Perched on its nose was a Mercury space capsule, designed to carry a man into orbit and ...