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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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Blue Origin’s New Shepard primed for latest launch on Tuesday
The New Shepard launch is scheduled for Tuesday, January 28 at 11 am EST / 10 am local time at Blue Origin’s Test Site One, ...
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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 ...
Wichita mourns victims of plane crash
📅 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 ...