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 ...

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 ...

Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that living beings could function beyond Earth, in space conditions, ultimately ...