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Here’s a look at the significance of sending animals to space
Ham’s 16.5-minute suborbital flight included 6.6 minutes of weightlessness and tested spacecraft systems despite technical issues, aiding safe human space missions.
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Here’s a look at the significance of sending animals to space
Ham it up Jan. 31 marks the day Ham, a chimpanzee, was launched into sub-orbital space in a Mercury capsule aboard a Redstone rocket to become the first great ape in space. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. However, three months earlier NASA had launched “Number 65” on a mission that helped pave the way for Shephard’s momentous flight. Number 65 was a male chimpanzee born in 1957 in the French Cameroons in West Afr…
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