Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to go to space. Ham reached an altitude of 157 miles during a 16 and a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — A medical expert said Friday man could have survived the space ride taken by Ham, the space chimpanzee. But the freckle-faced ape indicated at a news conference that he has some ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In 1961, NASA launched a rocket carrying Ham the Chimp into space. In 1968, Viet Cong guerillas raided the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, the Tan Son Nhut airbase and five hotels housing American ...