On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...

Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...

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

📅 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 ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Addison Leroy Bain, 89, passed away in Melbourne, Florida, on January 22, 2025. It was determined that another scientist was needed in the universe to study the galaxy and ...

Of course, the most notorious of all the planetary backspins involves Mercury — the cosmic ruler of communication, timing, tech devices, and other logistical matters that can heavily impact ...

This includes school busses running later than scheduled. In response, U.S. Army Garrison Redstone will execute delayed reporting to 10 a.m. for Garrison operations. Gates will operate as normal. We ...

Mercury Insurance provides personal and commercial property and auto coverage at affordable rates. Many of Mercury’s customers have stuck with the company for years, some up to a decade or two ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple ...